---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Evangelos Vafeiadis <[email protected]> Date: 15 December 2011 14:48 Subject: Re: [fsf-community-team] [ARTICLE] "Richard Stallman is Evil" To: FSF Community Team <[email protected]>
The term "consumer" is very different from the term "user". Consumption as an act, is related to material depletion of natural resources and/or (necessary) labour time. Once the software is developed and the developer is paid for his labour time, there's nothing in the software that can be consumed. The software itself is not affected from the "wear and tear" that affects physical goods when they are being used. The only consumption that takes place when someone is **using** a software is electrical power, computer hardware and his or her own (labour) time. Likewise, when reading a book or listening to music, you may be consuming the paper or the material of the CD. but you're not consuming the ideas that these media convey, you are just interacting with them. On 15/12/2011, Algot Runeman <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12/14/2011 04:45 PM, Andrew Engelbrecht wrote: >> http://johntate.org/node/62 >> >> This article/paragraph is a "teaser" for more about rms and his >> "consumerist" philosophy. >> >> Please post to the mailing list any comments you make. >> >> Thanks! >> -Andrew >> >> > Well, I'll be frank. I tried. I was absolutely unable to get past the > Captcha. I tried seven times. > > I would have said: > > I am a consumer of software. I am not a programmer, coder, etc. However, > I have helped by writing documentation. I have attempted to file bug > reports. I have "produced" graphics I hope are useful to others. I have > joined others in making the free software and computer-using experience > better. I am a contributor as well as a consumer. I am glad to give back > to the community. I feel like a member. I do not feel like a mere drone. > I do not just take what I can get (whether or not I pay for it.) I > prefer to build instead of buy when I can. I "work" at a computer > instead of mainly watching TV. I thank Richard Stallman and the > thousands of others who see that contributing to the common wealth is a > major value, a value to me and to society. > > I guess I might also be evil from your definition, but I'm not going to > accept that without much more explanation from you in parts 1, 2, 3... > > -=-=-=-=- > I was able to leave the comment on his "factoid" page of the blog...Not > where it might have been associated with the teaser article. > http://johntate.org/fact/johntate?page=1 > > --Algot > -- > > -- > ------------------------- > Algot Runeman > > [email protected] > Web Site: http://www.runeman.org > Twitter: http://twitter.com/algotruneman/ > sip:[email protected] > Open Source Blog: http://mosssig.wordpress.com > MOSS SIG Mailing List: http://groups.google.com/group/mosssig2 > > > ____ > > Freeform discussion: irc.gnu.org #fsf > Sharing news and links: #fsfct http://identi.ca/tag/fsfct > How to use this list: http://groups.fsf.org/wiki/Workflow > ____ Freeform discussion: irc.gnu.org #fsf Sharing news and links: #fsfct http://identi.ca/tag/fsfct How to use this list: http://groups.fsf.org/wiki/Workflow -- CK Raju _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
