You can study, is free. I don't see problem with anybody wishing to study anything.
On January 8, 2021 7:04:13 AM UTC, Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> wrote: >> From: "Alfred M. Szmidt" <[email protected]> >> Cc: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], >> [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] >> Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2021 16:07:13 -0500 >> >> > You are exagerating. Nobody is saying don't do research, I'm >quite >> > sure you are capable of finding that information on your own. >But it >> > is a different thing for GNU do provide that information for >you. >> >> But GNU software shouldn't help me in research? >> >> In the research of non-free software, obviously no. > >And that is a serious problem, because GNU maintainers need to do that >quite frequently, as part of their job they do for GNU. > >And other software users and professionals are likely to do that as >well, in order to study software algorithms and implementations. Let >me remind you that (AFAIK) one of the main reasons for starting GNU >was the inability to share ideas about software design and >implementation, due to commercial entities' enforcement of a system >where showing the code was prohibited. It would be ironic if the GNU >project prevented its followers from exercising the same freedom, by >denying us the information about where to find that source code to >begin with.
