[OT] Microsoft filled patent applications for scoped and immutable types

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On Sunday, 31 August 2014 at 09:23:28 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> Shoot, "pragmatic" distros like Mint and Ubuntu have done FAR 
> more to get people onboard with, and embracing, and pushing for 
> more open software than ANY purity distro. This is plainly 
> evident. He can't *not* see it.

What distro are they based on? :)

> It's basic marketing: Offer them what they want.

Sure, but it's technically impossible yet. Hence things are the 
way they are. There's no easy way to talk away real technical 
issues.

> *No* amount of well-reasoned well-explained logic works, at 
> least not on any meaningful scale. People don't get logic, 
> people don't like reason, people don't give a crap what sounds 
> good on paper or what's in their best interest. "In my best 
> interest" is boring. Dancing cats aren't.

If people don't get logic, don't ask Stallman to appeal to logic, 
because, as you correctly pointed out, there's no point to do 
that.