On Fri, 23 Nov 2001, Benjamin Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That just changed. Check out: > > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/freedom-or-power.html > > There, RMS and company state: > > "However, one so-called freedom that we do not advocate is the 'freedom to > choose any license you want for software you write'."
Look, whenever you are in http://www.gnu.org/pholosophy/* you are smack dab in the middle of the Church/Religion of RMS/GNU/FSF. As with any religion one can: - not believe any of it (let's pretend Gates and Balmer fit into this category) - not believe all of it, but believe some of the things it preaches are good (I'd guess many people on the list are in this camp) - believe all of it and with vigor. (these are usually well meaning people, but often difficult to get along with, best example: RMS) As in many religions guilt plays a role, the "freedom-or-power" passage I guess is trying to lay on some guilt to programmers for not using GPL or equivalent license. I am not surprised by or disappointed with such a "sermon" from RMS and Kuhn. Maybe I am missing what you are getting at. That web page fits their standard picture of Utopia. It is just philosophy, not a contraint of any license (AFAICS), so one can still just ignore it and still create / benefit from GPL'd software. Now if you want to start a flame war about RMS's dirty tricks and machinations, that'll be fun and I'll enjoy watching! Cynical me, I'm not surprised the spiritual leader does some corrupt things... Karl PS: I tried to be careful, but I apologize if my analogy offends anyone.. ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
