If you allow yourself to drop into the name calling and such:
uncivil!
However - if you stick to the facts of the discussion and focus
on where logic fails and such: civil!
Additionally - there's benefit to
everyone else if they see actual backed facts vs what's being presented as a
fact that can not be supported. It helps them make up their mind where to pay
attention and helps clear their understanding.
A good example of that is
when there were certain proponents speaking out against the GPL and it's
"evils". They liked to cloud over the fact that the GPL relies on Copyright Law
itself - and if one wants the GPL to be invalid, then one must accept the
defaults of Copyright Law which is much more restrictive.
Some who were
reading such authorings didn't have the educational background that P.J. has
provided us with and so failed to see where Copyright Law drew the lines and how
the GPL modified them - so what was being said by anti-GPL proponents made sense
to those individuals.
Without the light - clarity can't be seen. And
when someone first gets an "education" by those who wish to mislead - it takes
even more patience by the light to clear that up.
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