I’m active in circles associated with FSF and I often hear them saying research or academic software or programs must be licensed under GPL to prevent the work from being used in proprietary software.
But as a researcher I think that’s just involving politics in scientific work. I like BSD or MIT for research because it gives more flexibility for the users to use my work in anyway they see fit.
I think restricting my research work removes the point of it if it can’t be used freely by any person for any kind of work.
What do you people think?
It’s not like singular they is a particularly new thing. And you could have the same issue of plurality being ambiguous with the word ‘you’, but people seem to be able to figure it out.
Why do you want to use “they” and not a new term? Something that is not ambiguous
I’m partial to adapting ‘hen’ from Swedish as singular they, or ‘hän’ from Finnish as a singular pronoun for people which doesn’t indicate gender at all, but I use ‘they’ in English as it’s more widely understood.
I like that
Just because there is already a singular and plural “you” doesn’t justify doing the same mistake again.
Bold of you to deduce the natural evolution of a language is “a mistake.” Next you’ll tell me the sun ought be a little more to the South when it sets, too.