On 05/12/2007, Noah Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 05/12/2007, vijay chopra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 05/12/2007, Noah Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > My usual response to this argument is that essentially you are asking > > > for the freedom to restrict the freedom. This is patently absurd. > > > > Actually I'd compare free speech; it's not free speech unless it > difficult > > to hear what I'm saying. Similarly it's not software freedom unless it's > > hard to bear what I'm doing to your code. > > I have no idea what your argument is, sorry. Could you rephrase?
There are many people all over the world who say things I don't like racists, bigots and extremists of all flavours. What they say is often hard to listen too, but without the ability for people to air those views our speech wouldn't be free speech, it'd be censored. Similarly it's only truly free software when companies like TIVO have the ability to do with free software anything that they wish, even if it's difficult to stomach. Otherwise you're you end up doing the software equivalent of censorship to TIVO. That's not free. Vijay.
