On 18 November 2011 12:51, Robert T. Short <oct...@phaselockedsystems.com> wrote: > I understand that. If it isn't available from the website, at the very > least it creates an obstacle to using it, and therefore is a suppression > of freedom.
That obstacle is meant to discourage the creator of the non-free software and to encourage the software to be free instead. By saying that we don't endorse non-free software, and we won't help spread it, we're trying to convey a message that it is not ok to create non-free software. If you want to bring software into our classroom, you have to bring enough to share with everyone. ;-) Our users should also be made clearly aware that we don't think that they should use non-free software. If they want to do it anyways, that should between them and the creator of the non-free software, but there's no reason to make Octave or Octave-Forge an enabler and make this transaction any easier. - Jordi G. H. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list Octave-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
