On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, David Schlesinger wrote: > I still don't see how trying to limit people's choices is "more free" than > letting them make their own choices.
You are leaving out one important issue here. The "free" market is in fact already forcing non-free decisions on you. You can try to avoid all of those forced decisions, but like you said, you wouldn't be able to live a normal life. Look at how apple used BSD code to trap users into not running their own software on the apple hardware. Is it their freedom to enforce that upon us? Or has freedom been taken away from us? Look at Fairplay/itunes, and realise that Fairplay is proprietary code, which is probably using a lot of BSD code in there. Is that the "freedom" we wanted to give when writing BSD code? I guess it is, which is why I am a GPL person, despite the fact that I do own an OSX laptop. So to answer your question, are you "more free" due to BSD code in apple products, or "less free"? I believe you are less free. Paul _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community