wow. What a passionate response.
I'm not at all sure who your rant is directed at, but if it's at me, I
don't use windows, have no desire to use windows, can't stand windows
... etc etc. Here's a problem that no one has so far solved. Print books
are relatively cheap, you can walk into just about any book store and
pick one up. But for those who are blind or who don't want them, it gets
tricky. YOu have to listen to audio books. Those are available too, but
generally run somewhere in the vacinity of $35, and that doesn't include
shipping. There are cheaper, but these are rare. I do no about gutinburg
hope i'm spelling that correctly, but I want a way to read the latest
hit from the authors i'm interested in. This requires books that are
copyrighted. I don't want to download those books without paying for
it, would gladly pay for them. If they weren't so expensive. Since you
are so passionate about creative commons, licenses, Find a way to get
audiobooks in those licenses. You try that and the publishers will
scream bloody murder and you'll either have a lawsuit on your hands or
they'll try to encumber it with drm. I'm trying to be reasonable but I'm
not "playing the victim", just stating a fact. Ebooks are a nogo, drm
encumbered, and ebook readers are not accessible to us blind people and
aren't freedom friendly anyway. I agree with lots of stallman's points
but I take real issue with him, or anyone, telling me that ethical
reasons are more important than feeding my family. Try telling the irs
that you didn't pay your taxes because the tax software is proprietary.
See where that gets you. This has turned into a bit of a rant, so I
apologize. I really, really want to switch to free software only but
hardware issues aside, I'm having trouble finding alternatives to things
I use. I don't use skype, facebook or twitter. I do listen to music and
watch movies which i can do with free software. I download the
occasional youtube video which I can do with free software. The few
games I play are gpl3, which is good. but parts of my hardware do not
work with free software and I cannot simply go out and buy another
laptop or desktop. Can't afford it. Seriously peopls. We all want the
same thing. Free software to be the rule, not the exception. Why do we
fight so much. Telling people "sorry your laptop doesn't work, here, go
buy another one." Won't work. "sorry you need proprietary software to
work, quit your job and get another one." Doesn't work. I don't
understand why people who want to join the free software movement often
get a bad taste because we're so uncompromising. Just my two cents, i've
said enough for one day.
08/07/2013 04:24 PM, gnu...@lavabit.com wrote:
I am starting to find some arguments presented here ridiculous. Really!
"sharing knowledge" and "sharing your copy doesn't harm the person who
gave you the copy", yada yada yada.... You guys are forgetting that
what we see in the web are THOUSANDS of websites that "share" the
latest hollywood piece of crap, while making money from ads! That's
not sharing knowledge! That's not doing something good! That is "I
want to watch movies without payin eheh, I am smarter than them eheh,
I have internet and in internet you don't need to obey the law, and
you don't need to think about morals, because its the internet eheh,
is not real life, eheh".
That line of thought disgusts me... -.-
You know what guys?? Go ahead and just reverse engineer Windows,
change the code and use it! Why use free software?? Free software also
has to do with respectign licenses, but you care ZEROOOOOO about
licenses!
I know what the problem is... most people who support piracy, never
used their brains to create something new and make a living out of
that. They probably never used their brains anyway, let alone to
create something new...
You pirate a book/movie/music/whatever, you harm the creators and the
people who run bussiness around that content. You care nothing about
that. You care about your own desires and luxuries.
You pirate a book/movie/music/whatever, you disobey the law. You care
nothing about that because for you "the law does not apply to the
internet" or "the internet does not belong to the police and the
government".
You pirate a book/movie/music/whatever, you harm the people who create
Creative Commons and Public Domain content. You bring attention to the
pirate material, instead of the free content. You care nothing about
freedom, you care about whatever the hell you want and look at no
means to get it!
If there is one thing that sickens me in the free software movement
are the people who think piracy is ok...... Either stupidity was born
within them, or they just are so selfish that they fail to recognize
their own history.
