Richard Stallman <[email protected]> writes: > [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] > [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] > [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > > > But... I don't reject appliances in general for possibly having > > > nonfree software in them. If the appliance doesn't talk to a network, > > > Why not? Medical hardware mostly have access to some network to store > > patients data nowdays. For the philosophy part, is it clearly stated in > > the text it is ok to have some non-free software in hardware? > > I've told you my general views on appliances with nonfree software in > them. If you want to take a different stance, that's up to you. > I don't have time to argue about that issue this week. It is not me not wanting to understand you or taking a different stance. I am trying to analyze what you said from a logical/philosophical view. What I am telling is that what you currently say is leading to a contradiction, which means non consistent philosophy.
Sure, I understand you don't feel for discussing it, nobody is obliged to discuss anything they don't want.
