[Replying to list explicitly...] On Sunday 23. August 2015 14.39.40 Florian Weimer wrote: > > Seems rather speculative to me. > > A lot of free software aficionados are also happy Gmail users, and > have agreed to terms that are, on paper, extremely far-reaching and > obnoxious.
Yes, but they agreed to those terms as an individual choosing a mail service: it wasn't part of them signing up to do something else. > > And also, the use of Free Software is directly impacted by this > > cloud-pushing agenda, meaning that the viability of Free Software is > > affected since, just as it is when people decide to spend large sums > > on proprietary software, beneficial investment is withheld from > > improving Free Software that competes with those cloud > > products. > > That's a separate discussion, but I fail to see how it relates to > privacy. You claimed that the original topic, or least its focus on privacy, had nothing to do with Free Software and wasn't worthy of discussion on this list. I was only noting that the phenomenon observed (that happens to raise privacy issues) does have an impact on Free Software. Is that not worth discussing either? > And as far as I can tell, the FSF (US) does not consider a > healthy community of developers are primary goal, the priority is end > user freedom. And is using proprietary cloud services with potentially unacceptable terms that you may not even have had a reasonable chance to disagree with good or bad for user freedom? > The GPL v3 even contains an explicit permission to use > cloud providers tu ron proprietary, GPL-derived software. And the part of GPLv3 that says this is...? Paul _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
