On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 01:15, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 01:07:02AM -0500, Jeff Licquia wrote: > > I mentioned Thoreau in another thread, and the Bible in another; though > > they are free in every sense, perhaps that would be a place where we > > would need to be careful about modifications. I'm sure John Stuart Mill > > would be horrified to find his works published with "errata" edited by > > J. Edgar Hoover. > > There are many things that people are "free" to do which would be > horrifying to many. Publishing a book giving a scientific justification > for the intellectual inferiority of people with asian and african > backgrounds, or using gcc to write viruses and r00tkits, or using gnupg > and libgmp to design a nuclear device for deployment in Jerusalem or > Los Angeles. > > The trick is to make sure that people can write rebuttals, or stop > physical actions that're wrong, not to stop people from exercising purely > intellectual freedoms, like rewriting documentation or using programs. > > And we have the non-free section for people who don't agree with that > philosophy in a completely wholehearted manner (like the Bitkeeper > people, eg).
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