at least offer a serious reply so i know what one looks like

an ad hominem about my ip address is not relevant to what i said. i released iki as gpl, but you and clippy attacked me for the "arrogance" of that without understanding the benefits and generousity of open source. i'm not here to debate that, but you mentioned an "open source" version of me.

however, i'm always willing to explain myself. that's more "open source" than most people. i won't try drm tactics like threatening you, like i've dealt with from some people here. the trademark i mentioned was the one held by mozilla.

it was an example to explain how sometimes people find other ways to protect the image of open source software. i wa not implying that galleon needs to that way. but i already explained that too.

but lets actually pretend my ip address has anything to do with this debate, let's try to take you seriously. okay, my ip address has been abused before. now i protect it. if you have released something as gpl and they abused your project, that's valid. what have you released under an open source license? you know where to find me if you want another debate you can't take seriously.

or we don't have to make it about you and me, you could just tell me how good vista is, being "protected" from people making it somehow worse. or you could tell me how it helps qbasic to be everything we need today. but you won't, you'll sidestep it once again with something about me. tell me why you attack me for having the same opinions about open source myst does, when he and i both release projects under the gpl, and you don't call him arrogant? because he's a better coder? i'll tell you, the project i released as gpl? he likes it. that's good enough without having you in my fanclub.