On 05/12/2007, vijay chopra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There are many people all over the world who **SAY** things I don't like > racists, bigots and extremists of all flavours.
> Similarly it's only truly free software when companies like TIVO have the > ability to **DO** with free software anything that they wish See above for my emphasis. There is such a huge difference between the freedom to say something and the freedom to do something. I would defend your right to be racist and oppose your right to discriminate, for example. I am happy for TIVO to **SAY** anything they want about my software, free software or anything else for that matter. But when TIVO want to take freedom's away from me I will opose it. Talking about the freedom to take away freedoms is absurd. It makes about as much sense as you saying that I should have the freedom to say something which would remove YOUR freedom to say something else. -- Noah Slater <http://bytesexual.org/> "Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far as society is free to use the results." - R. Stallman - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
