All philosophy is wasted time

[KL-666]

For ages there are philosophical debates about what is, and what is not. What can we take for fact, and what not. Yet the moderators at the other forum seem to have omnipotent knowledge about what is fact and what not. From their newly written rules:

While differing opinions are fine, facts are facts. Continual disagreement with facts is considered trolling.

From: http://forum.flightgear.org/rules.php

Saying: Skip the crap God, philosophers and other thinkers. We know the truth, and what is good for you. Trust us and sleep sound.

Kind regards, Vincent

[IAHM-COL]

Personally I sleep sound knowing they don't know much about anything.
But they are power-hungry.

[Octal450]

Personally I sleep sound knowing they don't know much about anything.
But they are power-hungry.

I agree. They almost did ban me yesterday.

[legoboyvdlp]

They did?

[legoboyvdlp]

To be quite honest, they have a point.
I'd rather not lose FlightGear (ie. have it taken down by a court ruling) if Navigraph discovers those files which accidentally got in(but were deleted later) the Airbus A330, in the history.
I quote Thorsten here,

Code: Select all

I'm fairly sure there's the opinion in FGMembers that we're all doing this out of mean-spiritedness and all the content auditing isn't really particularly meaningful, but there's good reasons. If I'd ever commit a copyrighted nav database to FGAddon, my commit rights would be revoked the next day. Because it's actually not some stupid game, we have to protect ourselves and the projects from potential lawsuits.

[IAHM-COL]

Those same files were also added to FGADDon and later another commit retracted them. Just as we did. That's not a point, at all.

Nothing in FGMEMBERS endangers FG in any form. It is not new to the project that files needed to be retracted, or permission needed to be acquired "after-the-fact" in FGDATA, and also FGADDon (with the files mentioned above). The solutions needed are always applied, and as far as I can see, all efforts are made to keep in the right side of the copyright law.