In case you (or anyone else) have misunderstood: I am not trying to replace
the 4 so called freedoms - neither lightly, nor in any other way. They
obviously have their place and value. What I am saying is:
1. I question and am quite reluctant to the usage of the word freedom for
something that is really a permission. Freedom is beyond words, beyond
definitions. It cannot be limited in a shape, listed in a license and all
that. I don't know why the word freedom has been used when these 4
permissions were established - whether it was because it sounds more
appealing to say 'freedom' than 'right' or 'permission'. Maybe it was aimed
to attract, maybe it was just superficiality, maybe an outside influence,
maybe a bias, maybe an expression of a rebel, maybe nobody even thought. I
don't know. But the fact is - this is really a set of very specific
permissions. I am spending time on this again because I think that if we
really want to go deep into things we must be very careful with words because
the word is not the thing which it describes. It is just a description. If
the description is tinted even slightly - that matters a lot when subtleties
are discussed.
2. We need something much more than the 4 FSF permissions. They are obviously
not enough. The world of technology is not becoming more free, on the
contrary - more and more problems pile up. I have created a separate thread
about that - so far nobody expressed any interest to share a thought.
3. I am not coming with a ready proposal. If anyone is waiting for a proposal
that means the person is not serious enough to explore. It really turns into
consumerism - waiting for the product to be replaced with a better one, so
one can consume the new recommended thing. This pattern is in itself prone to
fail. It always leads to exploitation, dependency - not freedom. When I ask
certain things it is to invite the other person to break the pattern and
question for himself. Sharing is possible when we are with the same energy,
at the same time and we need that energy of togetherness because a single
person can do nothing in this world. When someone starts to present clever
arguments coming from the safety of past knowledge, from the authority of
another or from one's own authority - that is selfishness, not togetherness.
It can never create the explosion which is necessary to change things
radically.
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Back to browsers: The discussion with the authors of pyllyukko user.js lead
to the idea to create a matrix comparing the settings of different similar
projects, including Tor. So they suggested that I create a repository on
GitHub where this matrix can be maintained and updated easily when new
browser versions appear. Obviously I will have to learn how to use git.
