He responded to me privately by email in response to a usenet post I made about Linus charging 5 grand to use the linux name.
gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org is a mailing list that has a news->mail gateway setup (mail->news seems broken). And for the record, it wasn't made privatly, it was CCed to the mailing list. But here is that catch...what good is freedom if I can't afford it? Since you don't have the program to begin with, you can't claim any kind of freedoms on it. Only when you are in possession of the program can you have any kind of claim to freedom. Isn't non-free software that I can use MORE important than expensive GPL software like Redhat Linux? No, it isn't. Since price has nothing to do with freedom. You can ask someone who has a copy of RedHat's version of the Linux kernel to make you a copy though. It kinda boils down to privacy (and not money), i.e. I shouldn't be forced to give you my program if you don't have binary. In short, you don't have any kind of freedoms to something that you don't have in your possession. _______________________________________________ Gnu-misc-discuss mailing list Gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
