Jai Harrison wrote: > I have been thinking about this for a long time and contacted the FSF > a while ago concerning how the GPL doesn't ensure my freedoms anymore. > They directed me to the Affero General Public License and I have > decided to license any of my work that I release under it to ensure it > remains free. > > This is a big problem nowadays though. I'm using Google Apps for Your > Domain which most likely uses code that was previously free. Google is > one of the companies that makes a lot of money out of free software by > making it proprietary in a sense that the GPL doesn't prevent. There's > an interesting post on linux.com about this: > http://www.linux.com/feature/140934 > > What do you guys think about the theft of our freedoms that web > applications are introducing and on the requirement of a fifth freedom > to be introduced to protect free software from nasty corporations who > choose to exploit it (e.g. Google). >
And as if by magic, this link poppped into my ubuntu-uk feed today: http://autonomo.us/ "a workgroup convened at the Free Software Foundation, to discuss issues of freedom for users given the rise of network services." John -- John Levin http://www.technolalia.org/blog/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
