Joe Wreschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is a document, and what is a program? How can Debian even begin > to distinguish what makes free documentation different from free > software when we can't distinguish whether a particular piece of > data is software or documentation in the first place?
Yes -- this is the heart of the issue right here. And I say that it doesn't matter -- whether a work is what you call 'software' or 'documentation,' both, or something else entirely is besides the point. The point is that people need freedom to control their environment, to copy and modify, study and sample from the patterns of ones and zeroes of the published machine-readable works that make up the environment in which they live and communicate. And that it is not to me the free software movement anymore -- it is the free information movement. The issue for Debian now is to decide which way it will go -- is it that "software wants to be free," or "information wants to be free"? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
