Jimmy Kaplowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 01:02:44AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 01:30:48PM -0400, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: >> > It can buy freedom, depending on "what exactly you buy," as Wouter said. >> >> If you have bought it, what you have isn't freedom. > > I was talking about buying rights to a non-free software package and > making it free for you and everyone else ... you have paid money to make > there be a free software package where before there was only a non-free > one ... that is buying freedom (for yourself, which you then share with > others via a DFSG-free license), in a very real sense that pertains very > much to copyright law. Blender is more free now than it was before the > community paid $100K.
But Blender has no freedom -- it's just a bunch of bits. And the community is no more free for having bought Blender than it was before -- certainly, I am no more free now than I was before other people paid money for Blender. -Brian