Re: Glasgow mafia meeting at PLDI

Alastair David Reid wrote,

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o BSD fans think that "contamination" is bad o LGPL fans think that "contamination" is good

Manuel M T Chakravarty writes:

*sigh* Could we leave the rhetoric to Craig Mundie? Everybody thinks that "contamination" is bad. This is why such words are not helpful in a technical discussion.

Sorry, I wasn't trying to get into that sort of argument. I needed a word for and the only words I could think of are the ones the anti-GPL folk use. The quotes round the word were intended to mean that the meaning wasn't simply contaminate. I should have hunted harder for a word since, as you say, it's not helpful to use those words. -- Alastair Reid reid@cs.utah.edu http://www.cs.utah.edu/~reid/