[EMAIL PROTECTED] posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted
below, on  Fri, 29 Sep 2006 11:33:39 -0700:

> On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 04:03:25PM -0700, Bob Young wrote:
> 
>> That's almost entirely a theoretical difference, in the real world this
>> "freedom" is actually exercised very little if at all.
> 
> Almost?!?  How many people actually use the freedoms guaranteed by the US
> constitution?  For almost all of them, it is a theoretical freedom they
> never use.

I was trying /very/ hard not to open up another can of worms, at least
keeping it as much to software as possible.  I tend to agree and would
normally continue this angle, but this isn't really the place for
the discussion after it has left software entirely.

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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
and if you use the program, he is your master."  Richard Stallman

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