I keep reading about how free software *should* protect people from anything
from the big bad wolf to the NSA. Probably is just a lack of education. In
the race to get the latest, the biggest and the coolest diploma people with 6
to 20 years of schooling remain in ignorance on most issues they debate.
Free software is about freedom. Freedom in itself does not protect anything
but freedom.
It is *I* who decides if I use my car to give some stranger a lift, if I use
my car to do run away from a crime scene, if I use my car to get the
groceries for an asylum or if I use my car to run over my disgusting
neighbor. The GPL car should not stop if ITSELF evaluates my action as a
crime because it might be wrong. The GPL car is not supposed to make me
invisible to the police chopper overhead. Having a GPL car does not imply
having a gun pointed to the passenger seat just in case I might be mugged.
And if I care to install such a device, the GPL gun should not tell me who
might be the one /deserving/ to be wounded.
Trisquel is a distribution that puts into practice the FSF philosophy. It's
sad to see the mullahs of the information techology pushing against this
philosophy when one has so much freedom to install a few thousand
distributions. The irony is that the diversity is also generated by the same
philosophy they dislike.
- [Trisquel-users] Trisquel team keep up the good work wlqdqxvu
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