"Bob Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Fri, 29 Sep 2006 15:42:50 -0700:
> Would you go to war, or be willing to die for the "freedom" that open > source provides? If not, then equating it with the freedoms that real mean > and women have fought and died for is to marginalize the importance the > word is meant to convey. As I said elsewhere, while I can't honestly say I'm to that point /yet/, I /can/ honestly say that I believe I /should/ be to that point. Further, I realize and have accepted the possibility of the loss of physical freedoms to ensure mental freedoms. (IOW, it's possible and has already happened for some, that freedom software and/or a refusal to submit to the ban on reverse engineering in the EULA with most unfreedom (aka slavery) software and in some laws, results in imprisonment. I recognize and accept that as a risk of positively asserting software freedoms.) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- [email protected] mailing list
