Follow-up Comment #3, task #12339 (project administration): I would add for consideration:
In a perfect world freedom 0 would be founded on a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_Internet_access, which does not exist. The fundamental principles ignore the digital divide and making people with internet access more wealthy may have the opposite effect on the people on the other side (depending on the investment philosophy of the people who became more wealthy). Consequently there is software with a high potential for revenue that does reduce the global availability of freedom 0, unless we can guarantee that continually more and more people are educated to make use of the software and given access to the internet. Even in this latter case one could argue that there are cultures who prefer not to become internet entrepreneurs and creating economic pressure on these cultures to become internet entrepreneurs could be seen as cultural imperialism (by the internet community, which often exhibits a profound lack of culture), even if we would agree that their descendants are generally bound to change their mind. This consideration cannot in general be expected from programmers who develop software for other programmers, at least unless their moral education improves significantly, thus offering a licensing option that makes this point may seem worthwhile. _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?12339> _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/
