Comment by marcus0x62

I have no problem debating people who have positions grounded in reality and who appear to be acting in good faith. In this thread you’ve:

* Instead of addressing the substance of brudger’s argument[0], you attempted to tone police his comment and then set up a false dichotomy.

* Accused me[1] of “conflating legal rights with what is socially or ethically right, and I think this is a dubious rhetorical trick.” when I had argued no such thing, and it was in fact you who were engaged in dubious rhetorical tricks[2] as all I had written at that point is that people have the option of running open source projects on their own terms.

All of this in support of the position that people who give away their labor for free have a further obligation to give away more free labor because…checks notes… you say so.

0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43143719

2 - see, I do believe in social niceties. Isn’t it much nicer to say someone engaged in “dubious rhetorical tricks” than to say what you actually did in that comment, which is lie?