Em 13-12-2009 12:44, Philip Van Hoof escreveu:
Richard's claim that proprietary is illegitimate is enforcement. He's
making a philosophic mistake that contradicts his own ideology of free
choice.
Choice of the master is not free choice for a slave. It only looks like
free choice to other
Putting aside, for a minute, the interpretations, elaborations and
rewordings, it's funny how similar the actual suggestions are:
Lefty says:
if any instances of
promotion of non-free software should actually occur, they can be dealt
with when they do, on a case-by-case basis.
That's a rule
On 12/13/09 7:24 AM, Ciaran O'Riordan cia...@member.fsf.org wrote:
That's a rule (a policy), which is mild and doesn't involve jumping straight
to blocking a whole blog. And it was suggested in heated opposition to this
comment:
No, Ciaran: you've removed the entire surrounding context, and
That's where the cash for things like my FSF-E
Fellowship, EFF membership, Creative Commons membership, etc., come from,
see?
These are worthy causes, but I would not encourage anyone to use
non-free software even to get money to give to a worthy cause.
However, the issue here isn't
We wanted Gnome to be a free software stack, and that was our
requirement. Gnome itself was assembled out of the available
components plus the requirements of the community that emerged early on.
GNOME was made out of available components and new components. In
particular, we
You're also stretching the term censorship and related terms to an
area where it does not pertain. For an organization to stand by its
values, and not say things which conflict with those values, is not
censorship.
Fine. We can simply call it prior restraint if you
On 12/13/09 8:22 AM, Richard Stallman r...@gnu.org wrote:
Unable to come up with and too dumb are your own additions,
which clearly were not present in the events themselves.
Clearly, a lot of misunderstanding was present in the events themselves.
To what do you attribute this wide-spread
On Sun, 2009-12-13 at 08:33 -0800, Lefty (石鏡 ) wrote:
On 12/13/09 8:22 AM, Richard Stallman r...@gnu.org wrote:
Unable to come up with and too dumb are your own additions,
which clearly were not present in the events themselves.
Clearly, a lot of misunderstanding was present in the
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Heya,
On 13.12.2009 16:33, Lefty (石鏡 ) wrote:
To what do you attribute this wide-spread misunderstanding, if not
stupidity, ignorance or a general lack of adequate erudition on the part of
the audience?
Misunderstandings can be a result of many
On 12/13/09 8:22 AM, Richard Stallman r...@gnu.org wrote:
That's where the cash for things like my FSF-E
Fellowship, EFF membership, Creative Commons membership, etc., come from,
see?
These are worthy causes, but I would not encourage anyone to use
non-free software even to get
On 12/13/09 8:49 AM, Ciaran O'Riordan cia...@member.fsf.org wrote:
Yes. You said that no one's yet demonstrated a problem, and you gave a
solution for if the problem was demonstrated. You're solution was 100%
compatible with Richard's solution.
Except that we now seem to have had the
In the interests of a broader collection of data, I've shelled out of my own
pocket to set up a professional-level SurveyMonkey account (the use of which
I will happily share with the Foundation, at least until the annual
subscription runs out, if it wishes to conduct surveys of its own).
I've
On Sun, 2009-12-13 at 13:34 +, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
Em 13-12-2009 12:44, Philip Van Hoof escreveu:
Richard's claim that proprietary is illegitimate is enforcement. He's
making a philosophic mistake that contradicts his own ideology of free
choice.
Choice of the master is
On 12/13/2009 06:04 PM, Lefty (石鏡 ) wrote:
In the interests of a broader collection of data, I've shelled out of my own
pocket to set up a professional-level SurveyMonkey account (the use of which
I will happily share with the Foundation, at least until the annual
subscription runs out, if it
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