I generally agree with the notion of your message, but describing Free Software as a "good idea" is an extremely weak way to represent it. That's not what we're fighting for. A good idea is to customize your Emacs, or not to get late for work if your boss is picky; the Free Software Movement is much more than that.
If we fail to explain to the people (and that means mostly the "users") that they're entitled to the essential freedoms, they would never recognize them and would not attempt to protect them. If we allow them to accept that "it's better because of the open collaborative development model" whey will hardly grasp the core point and will probably not make the analogy with other grave bugs in our society. The Free Software Movement is just the beginning of the revolution; if we turn it to a practical effort (as our friends from the Open Source campaign have done), we will never achieve our true goals. Regarding the topic (the kernel developers' statement wrt GPLv3) I just reread RMS' and Eben Moglen's transcripts of their speeches at Barcelona and Bangalore -- they address all concerns that the Linux developers speak about so perhaps it's much better to point the people to those speeches. _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
