Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller <[email protected]> wrote: > IMHO that has nothing to do with freedom at all. Just personal enrichment.
Objection: it is *NOT* personal enrichment if I share. If I were to ever get a hold of the ware that I am after, I would NOT greedily hoard it for myself like its current holders are doing, I would make it available to everyone who wants it. > And does *not* bring forward the community. Depends on which community you are talking about. If *your* community has chosen to cripple itself by limiting to just those means which don't offend the repressive legislative regimes, then indeed your community won't benefit from IFS (Illegal Free Software) work. However, my work on building a Totally Illegal Phone (whether I do it by kidnapping an ex-Om-Inc employee and beating the TI deliverable out of him, by taking the publicly leaked TSM30 source and modifying it in a copyright-disregarding manner to backport it to Leonardo/GTA02, or by taking OsmocomBB and adding illegal enhancements to it) will most certainly benefit a DIFFERENT community: a community of brave and determined revolutionaries who are officially At War with all law-making regimes and who would like to use the enemy's Public Land Mobile Networks infrastructure in our asymmetric warfare against them. MS _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
