simo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Of course any requirements can be spelt as a restriction from the point > of view of the distributor, but the point of view of the GPL is to > protect *user*'s freedom not distributors freedom.
User and distributor are not two distinct or identical groups with free software. [...] > Mj Ray is playing rhetorical tricks here. > Nothing more effective that someone bitter that try to find faults at > all costs and is confrontational. Simo is playing the man, not the ball here. But then, I am a bit bitter that FSF's hypocrisy in updating their basic texts to match their leaders' actions isn't more widely-known when me and my projects get such a bad press from FSF supporters. What long-time supporter wouldn't get a bit fed up with the original proponent endlessly rewriting its own core beliefs? How can we build stable shared alliances if the common ground keeps getting moved without agreement? I don't mean to be confrontational, but sometimes I'm at a loss of any other way to highlight FSF use of tactics like lock-out, ret-con, hair-splitting, and so on. Hope that explains, -- MJ Ray http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html tel:+44-844-4437-237 - Webmaster-developer, statistician, sysadmin, online shop builder, consumer and workers co-operative member http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ - Writing on koha, debian, sat TV, Kewstoke http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
