El 25/04/13 10:11, [email protected] escribió:
> It's convenient to trust others and accept a division of labour.
>
> I don't always choose principle over convenience.  Am I not really a
> part of the free software community?
>

Your own principle or my principle? If you do not have steadfast
principles, you don't know who you are. If you have principles you
violate, they are not your principles, they are just temporary
conveniences to make you feel good.

> It's good that ideologies exist, so that we have frames of reference
> for talking to eachother.
>

Actions are the best way to talk to each other. There is no ideology
without practice. The contrary are lies.

> But I think that ideologies are an unattractive way of appealing to
> people.  People make exceptions to a lot of things, for practical
> reasons.  Religion, liberalism, socialism, etc.  And perhaps for their
> software as well.

I do not think ideology is not practical. I think ideology is just
seeing beyond superficiality. It is always convenient and practical to
use free software. If you choose not to do it because you don't want to
make the effort now, you will pay for it in the future with money,
dependency and/or unjust conditions imposed onto you and others you pull
along with you. It is your decision to do it now or procrastinate. Of
course you can take small steps. But a small step will not install more
non-free software. A small step will always remove non-free software,
regardless of how much free software you install. Otherwise, it is big a
step backwards.

-- 
Saludos libres,

Quiliro Ordóñez
Presidente (en conjunto con el resto de socios)
Asociación de Software Libre del Ecuador - ASLE
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Quito, Ecuador
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