Emmy Noether <emmynoeth...@gmail.com> writes: >> Some entity, AKA David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org>, >> wrote this mindboggling stuff: >> (selectively-snipped-or-not-p) > >>>> Software is a puzzle and it must be explained to be able to do that, >>>> its like a lock > >>> There is no unfreedom involved here. Freedom does not hand you a free >>> ride. Only a free road. > > No one asks for a free ride. A free road is good enough.
Obviously you don't understand what you are talking about. > Perhaps we do the same to him and break into his FSF office and leave > a "friend" note we came to get the docs he has not released. You can't "get" anything that has not been written. > The concise answer: We want a free road but not a free puzzle. You have the freedom to walk the forest you perceive. You have the freedom to build the road that you want, in that forest. If it is a puzzle to you, that is your own problem. It is not a puzzle because somebody would have cut a whole into pieces and scattered them around. It is a puzzle because nobody put it together yet. Feel free to do so, doing others the service you want done. > Now, dont run away from this argument and bring each and every of the > boys from his mailing list to tackle this question. He is a manager > and he can put the volunteers to the task of documenting, illuminating > and revealing the operation of his softwares and its evolution. You want a free ride, very obviously. > He owes it to others And you think your whining entitles you to it. What did you ever do to _deserve_ others working for you? -- David Kastrup -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
