On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Gareth Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Anyone else find it strange that Richard Stallman feels it is apparently > unjust for Microsoft and others to publish software that users are not > free to share and modify, but it is ok to publish an article which > readers are not free to share and modify? If he's using his standard licence then you are free to copy it verbatim and share it. Stallman believes that works of opinion are different from pieces of software. He is concerned that arbitrary modifications of a work of opinion could lead to misrepresentation, and he's not alone in that. Software doesn't really have that problem, so he's right that they are different. I don't agree with his conclusions on this particular issue, I'm just trying to explain that his position is coherent. - Rob.
