> Can you give an example of software that doesn't respect freedom 0? > ("The freedom to run the program, for any purpose")
Yet another example. Mots computer science departments at Universities have proprietary development systems such as MS Visual Studio. The academic license is much cheaper (and sometimes even free - like drugs, the first hit is free) and often includes authority to allow students to download a copy onto their own PCs. However, the license for these systems allow their use for educational purposes only and so any software that the students produce using them is not allowed to then be used for production purposes - you're supposed to buy the commercial version of the development suite. The binaries these academic versions produce include symbols indicating that they were produced using that version and if a BSA audit finds a company running such software they'll be investigating the source of it. -- Professor Andrew A Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan http://www.a-cubed.info/