I am not saying he's some uninformed person and he most likely knew what he was getting himself into when he accepted a conversation with them. But if he outright just declined talking them, then we won't know just how far they willing to go. Equally he hasn't even claimed these were joke comments, I am pretty sure he's being serious.If we agree on nothing else, you did at least post this and I expect you to hold him a little bit accountable and not coddle him like he's some poor, uninformed victim. He specifically mentioned tivoization in this very thread, in the context of "the team changing their mind on _____" - I believe that was a MAJOR slip up for him to admit that he discussed those types of licensing issues in depth with TX. Not so easy to claim it was all a joke, in my opinion!
I don't believe any of my snippets are out of context at all. You can click the arrow icon next to the quote to be taken to the exact post. He said what he said, and he did so pretty clearly. I only snipped the middle part of a quote ONCE and I denoted it with the standard "[...]"
If what he said looks bad without pages of context, maybe he shouldn't have said it?
The tivoization wasn't a comment about a company changing their mind, in fact that's not even what the tivoization case was about. He made that comment in reference to Gary saying they would have released it for free without the licence, which is what the tivoization case was about and why the GPL3 was made.
Saying that he shouldn't make comments that can be taken out of context is a moot argument.
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