On 22/01/2008, Noah Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
Reminds me of the Libdem policy of using our nuclear arsenal as a bargaining chip to get the rest of the world retire them too. Retire 50% now, and the other 50% when everyone else does - sounds reasonable too me. There has to be some half-way house at some point during change over.. it's when someone doesn't plan for a complete change over and sticks with the intermediary that there is a problem (like FSF support of Adobe Flash format!) Cheers, Jon _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
