> All the four freedoms need to be usable for something to be > useful. If you can't upload a new copy, then being able to > modify it is pointless I think.
Then what did RMS use to write emacs and gcc? It is called a `needed evil'. When RMS wrote emacs and GCC, NO free software operating system existed. It was impossible to _not_ use non-free software. Today it is possible to use 100% software. So there is no reason to use non-free software at all. Just because he now has free versions of his tools doesn't mean other users yet have free versions of their tools; or tool-sets. They have the tools to write free versions. You are resorting to straw man arguments. _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
