[Edu-sig] re: license

[ajs@ix.netcom.com]

>I think you over-stress this self image.  Some people disagree >with some of your points, as is natural in a free wheeling give >and take world.  Others don't find the axes you grind >particularly interesting. Others agree with some of your points.

Stop being reasonable and asking me to be so also.

I hate that.

But of all the messages of the "re:license" thread that illustrates my sense of things - my feelings (yes, I said "feelings") was the one by Dr. David Mertz - a profilic Python popularizer. (aka Lulu of the Lotus Eaters):  

"""
"Arthur" <ajs@i...> wrote previously:
|>BTW, you still haven't mentioned the package. Tell me THE PACKAGE!!! ;)

|I am *never* discrete.
|But at my age, an opportunity for a new experience is rare.

s/discrete/obnoxious/
s/rare/elsewhere/

"""

I honestly don't know what it means.  I'm suspecting it doesn't mean something nice, but that's not the point.

The point is that it is a message, from my perspective, from the 
intiated to the initiated.

My alienation from the community is a 2 way street though.  To a large extent I see it as a community of initiates - which is fine - with a core belief that it is something else; which is not fine.  If it wants to be something else, it needs to find a way to try harder.

CP4E!

Art