On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 03:09:43PM +0000, Alex Hudson wrote:
I don't need protection from words, thanks, and I don't think using words which are in common parlance is particularly dangerous or harmful.
Words can be very harmful, even though they're used in "common parlance". Think about that conglomerate of different subjects thrown together as "intellectual property".
What is harmful, though, is attempting to portray people as siding on one side when they're actually on the other. It's divisive.
I see a real and great danger in the classification of software as "commercial" as every time I saw this phrase used, it was used to sell proprietary licences as "licences for commercial use". By the repeated use of phrases like that, the impression is built that commercial use is not possible with Free Software licences. So it _is_ harmful to try to classify software as "commercial" or not.
Best wishes Michael