On 06/16/2016 04:49 AM, Luke wrote: > You bring up a good point, there is a risk of having words twisted, but > I think that is a price to pay for free speech.
Free speech means saying what you want to say (if it's not hate speech, but that a different discussion) as your own opinion. Repeating what someone else said "in a way that has a different meaning" and pretending it's what the other person said and meant, I don't believe that's free speech. That is what I meant with "twisting RMS' words". > People could always try and twist our words even with the proper licensing. Sure, but with the proper licensing (NoDerivs), it's easier to enforce it, because it's easier to prove that the word twisting is a copyright violation than prove in court it's something not ethical/violates other human rights. > We urgently need all three categories: Free Software, Cultural Freedom, > and Hardware freedom. I can understand this romantic view, but I disagree. Having free software means having control over our digital tools, which is the foundations of a free digital society. We can survive without free culture, because as you implied, people don't respect copyright licenses and they shouldn't if those licenses represent abuses. Music and movies are being redistributed and remixed even without a proper free culture license. Also, there is the concept of fair use in using copyrighted cultural works in your work. And adding new hardware functionality to already manufactured boards (or even less to already manufactured processors) is near to impossible without remanufacturing the hardware with a changed design all over again, which most people don't have the means of production to do (or the money to pay for). However, improving existing software features or adding new software features of hardware boards and devices can be done if the software is free/libre. You only need to have programming skills or ask one of the many programmers to do it, so it's much easier, it's doable. This is why it's no coincidence free software movement was the first to appear 30 years ago, and only 10 years ago free culture and free hardware design movements. > In order for information to flow freely, each of > these areas are critical. If you're talking only about free information flow, that can be accomplished simply by respecting freedom to redistribute exact copies, which is only one of the four essential freedoms. Thanks, Tiberiu
