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Re: Freedom of Software protected by GPL -- not BS
by Kurt Pfeifle on Saturday 03/Jan/2004, @08:35
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Mr. Velev,
I clearly don't want to share the your kind of freedom: you are putting a lot of different things into the same bag and tell me that they belong together.
I am all for "freedom of choice". But I also am aware: any "freedom of choice" in our type of society and environments must have also "limits".
If you'd use your "freedom of choice" to do me harm, I will fight back. I assure you, that wouldn't be pleasant for you nor for me, nor for the rest of us.
That's why sane people voluntarily restrict themselves to not use freedom of choice to their own personal gusto and advantage alone. I am sure you are one of these sane people... ;-)
But not all are nice as you. There are not just sane guys and gals on this evil world. That's where rules and law and law enforcement comes into play. And the bending of rules and laws And power and even dictatorship.
We choose to use some rules under which our software may be used, and ask users to agree to these rules. These rules are *very* liberal. These rules even include a big degree of "freedom of choice", "free market", "free speech", "freedom to innnovate", believe it or not.
Your "freedom from GPL" would stop protecting the above freedoms. Your "freedom from GPL" denies my freedom to choose the GPL.
Your are wasting your time. And mine. I, for my part, will now stop wasting time.
Have a nice time with using KDE on Linux, *BSD, *nix or Mac OS X! |
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