-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 I won't explicitly take a stance on the issue (at the moment I'm still trying to form an opinion on that), but the clear distinction (to me) is that software *does* something, while a written text does not.
On Fri, 15 May 2015 14:35:09 -0700 Aaron Wolf <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 05/15/2015 02:27 PM, Yoni Rabkin wrote: > > Aaron Wolf <[email protected]> writes: > > > >> Why the incredible desire to use existing source code? Why not use > >> the wasted time and efforts spent arguing about this reverse > >> engineering your software and just be done with it. … > > > > Because works of personal opinion are different than useful > > software. > > > > Not different enough so that the same completely useless statement > from Terry couldn't be applied identically. If you want to push this > distinction, you are being intellectually dishonest if you don't allow > the very same logic and arguments to be applied. If the distinction is > real, then there *must* be cases where you can take the same logic and > show that it applies in one case and not the other. > > The example you are replying to is not that. The "you're wasting time, > do it yourself" argument works for both unless you get into discussing > whether someone like RMS spending lots of time and talent writing > clearly is somehow different from software engineers doing the same > with code. > > It's put simply in Nina's > http://blog.ninapaley.com/2011/07/04/rantifesto/ > > She points out that in the argument from RMS / FSF about "works of > opinion" the language changes. > > 'notice how users are now called “recipients,” and their Freedoms are > now called “permissions”' > > If you can't make your point about the distinction by applying the > *identical* arguments and yet come to a different conclusion, then the > issues between the different media are *not* distinct in this regard. > > And complaining about the arguing is just a complete cop-out. > - -- Federico klez Culloca mes3hacklab - http://mes3hacklab.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJVVmiOAAoJEDN2523zildFI2IP/iYRiNju2jv9kET/frpL73rC il+yeqlSAWyPyT7okV5NX5weuERSWwpitF+1p/CGW1vmPTzjFqXJWIffLUkKh4fX uzm22oziqycfGKWKKnWQ1P5z3fBVaHScCpxGvlVbOYwRH8cNJChtpgQn6JwocXFv jkwYpb0qGybZJnvAzlTbrQwSW4Yb46t13Wxd/Xy8A7Brv1AUrhWKUYsTnQ9qvftE yq4+vuKVvj9u9ii3D2LWMnFKj8p8YSOgFbmIcPAR+q/vBo1UIqfuCTpPud/9nZKI 1F7PQzIAHGuudBsMUQ+iaa3tyRULHsqoFCLOpE65RCdmPe17qLM2S+acxsTG2TVK ZF0PDB5vv+OtrABR/zFxDbUWZtL5EwNyLYM1UPLHt5aA7zTmo0A00IviHYhwlzgU OGgkXQjdET0FRrSC55vW9zGQ7WjB6LMlc05IIevjS4KZ6opIen6WgBhSOu1WMM1w dkjBJDHTMG4uXU28tNVQrbOax/MIC8OhnlT5ZJBNwLQoGNYsqvHOMesPbzUyQeRo 6HHN7S8tIRKRG8xl+XEXqhoSfzXtXabo4SfnBzUVF3X32fTTeQyEg7k8nXWSB5uB QsY6qhxM3352llXPErC2o3ii6dR2W+t2FGiG6HEuG95/tvDRVaW5Kgzf7995r6P7 5cVHi9IwG9/DBlMh3gfo =+fB5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
