On Monday 19 Aug 2002 9:43 am, you wrote: > Cookie wrote: > > 99% of the people who post there are rabid GNU followers, who want > > everything to be free, regardless of reality. > > GNU followers don't want everything to be free - they want there to be a > free software alternative to everything. Which is entirely different. > > I should have known an ex-microsoft employee would think like that :) :) :)
Sorry Geoff, I'd love to agree with you. You're right that the GPL itself and the saner parts of the FSF's website do make that distinction. But Stallman himself, and quite a lot of people who follow his ideas, think that all information should be freely copied no matter who generated it or what their wishes are concerning how that information should be used. I believe RMS has also lobbied his government to outlaw non-Free software. "To release a non-free program is always ethically tainted" - http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html "Note that the GNU Project recommends avoiding the term piracy since it implies that sharing copies is somehow illegitimate" - http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy.html "As a computer user today, you may find yourself using a proprietary program. If your friend asks to make a copy, it would be wrong to refuse. Cooperation is more important than copyright." - http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-free.html Andrew -- --- Andrew Collier ---- ---- http://mnemotech.ucam.org/ --- -- r<2+ T<4* cSEL dMS hEn/CB<BL A4 S+*<++ C$++L/mP W- a-- Vh+seT+ (Cantab) 1.1.4
