> 1. When you go to a restaurant, do you consider every dish for which you are > not given the recipe + the right to modify and redistribute it a "maybe > poison"?
I do. Lard is poison. > 3. Do you ever sit in a modern car, bus, train, ship, airplane without being > given the full engineering blueprints, specs, software code etc? I'm not the one doing the driving, so the computing involved in transportation is not mine. Not my computing, not my problem. Also, you're conflating several issues which I have no time to explain and formulate a good response right now. > 4. Suppose you are in a critical situation where a beloved person needs > medication to save his life. The only available medication is patented > (non-free). What will you do? - Preach about freedom or let the poor guy > drink the pill so he can stay alive? This is also conflating several issues that are not the same as having control over your actions in the digital world. > 5. What actual value have FSF-freedoms when your CPU runs proprietary > microcode? Microcode is a serious problem. You should not install proprietary microcode on your machine, but already-existing microcode that cannot be removed is acceptable for now. > 6. How do you know 6*8=48? Have you really placed 6 things on 8 places and > counted that? (Extrapolate on this) More appeals to absurdity. > 7. What is the proof that every single line of code of a multi million lines > FOSS program has been verified by experts who are independent from the > original vendor? The proof is the same as any scientific proof: peer review. This is why we have collective freedoms 2 and 3, not just individual freedoms 0 and 1. > You see... FSF's rules are not almighty and they can't be used as a reference > > to explain each and every technological event. However, they can be a reference for computer user rights.
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