On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 01:10:11PM +0100, Dave Crossland wrote: > A friend of mine sympathetic to softrware freedom movement but who > lately pointedly says "open source" notes that Jefferson campaigned to > abolish slavery while owning slaves, and he makes all the software he > writes available as free software, but doesn't mind using proprietary > software until it can conveniently be discarded.
I think this is misleading. Jefferson, and I am guessing wildly here, probably kept the slaves as this was his primary source of income and social status. Without those to things his campaign would have been futile. I hardly think that his situation is similar to the "zomg, i just totally have to get that new mac air so i can sit in starbucks drinking my extra-mocha-choca-decaf and prepare notes on free software using keynote" situation. -- Noah Slater <http://bytesexual.org/> "Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far as society is free to use the results." - R. Stallman _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
