On 06/12/2007, vijay chopra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes they do, users have the choice to take the original source, compile it > and then run it if they want. In my world, developers and users have > identical freedoms.
Yes they do, but what if a vendor takes the source, adds loads of improvements, and then removes the freedoms explicitly given in the original licence? The users are free to go upstream for the original source but it will be missing the key features the vendor added. This happens, all the time. Take Apple and WebKit for example. -- Noah Slater <http://bytesexual.org/> "Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far as society is free to use the results." - R. Stallman - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
