On Fri 20 June 2003 14:45, Joerg Schilling wrote: > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Jun 19 14:35:41 2003 > > The main point is that with e.g. dvdrecord, you do not have the > freedom to use the program for the announced purpose because it > only works for outdated drives and there is no support.
Surely there's a difference between the freedom to do something and the possibility of doing it? Nobody is disputing that cdrecord-ProDVD is a better option from a technical and support point of view. But that doesn't mean that I also have the freedom to see how it works and modify it for example. > As nobody works in dvdrecord, the "other resons" for the so > called freedom do not apply.... The fact that I'm not studying or modifying dvdrecord doesn't mean that I don't have the freedom to do so. Put it this way. I'm free to run 10 km in half an hour, but I don't have the physical capability to do that. I have the physical capability to drive a car at 140 km/h on the motorway but I'm not free to do so (in Holland that is, in Germany ofcourse I would). And this is all totally independent of whether I'm actually doing it. Ability, freedom and actual occurrence are different things. Lourens -- GPG public key: http://home.student.utwente.nl/l.e.veen/lourens.key -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
