On Nov 27, 2007 7:20 AM, Gregory Leblanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 26, 2007 2:54 PM, Luis Villa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Nov 26, 2007 10:28 AM, Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snip] > > > 2. How do you think the GNOME Foundation should support the Free > > > Software Movement in general? > > > [snip] > > > > More long-term, working with the online desktop folks, and hopefully > > with many other interested parties, we need to reframe what software > > freedom means in a network-centric world. It is now abundantly clear > > to most everyone that source code access is frequently insufficient to > > guarantee user autonomy; the question, then, is what additional (or > > perhaps different) requirements will help our users maintain their > > autonomy in the future. This is much bigger than GNOME, of course, but > > it seems likely that we will be at the cutting edge of it, and so > > we're going to have to deal with it whether we're the best forum for > > it or not :) > > I'm not quite clear on what you mean here, Luis. Can you suggest some > links that I might peruse that would describe what you mean by 'user > autonomy' and why source code access is insufficient to guarantee it?
Keep an eye on my blog; essay on it going up in the next 24-48 hours. But you can get some flavor of it from previous posts: http://tieguy.org/blog/category/openservice/ and from http://live.gnome.org/FreeOpenServicesDefinition Nutshell: if a web service gives you source, but keeps your data and identity locked up, you have very little choice- very little autonomy- unlike the choice/autonomy you'd have if you were running locally-managed software and had the source. Luis _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
