2010/5/1 <[email protected]> > ATI and Nvidia drivers do not cost consumers any money to use them, so > someone please explain why these are bad? >
That's not bad, it's great. But Trisquel follows FSF's definition of free software which is not about price but freedom. You are free to decide which is more important. > > What is wrong with a coder developing their own software and keeping it > proprietary if they want to? After all it is really their software not ours? > > If you work to help society and make things easier for everyone, keeping code secret makes no sense. You are free to release your code to the world or keep it secret, it is your choice too. > No one here using GNU/Linux or the other off branded Linux distros is a > slave forced into anything. > > You know you really need to look at it from the other side, your side too. > Ok you are also locking me into something, saying if you want to use > Trisquel use it this way or not at all? Right? > > Licenses tell you what you can and can not do with the software, and they are restrictive by nature. But free software licenses are there to help protect your freedom. When you don't get help with proprietary software in this community, is because people here want to protect your freedom not to lock you into something. > So if you think about it, for your sake of freedom you're limiting me, > taking away freedom. > > Let me ask you this, are you saying that all software should be open source > and free? > I think we should recognize to others the rights we ask for ourselves. -- Luis Felipe López Acevedo http://introsmedia.tuxfamily.org/
