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Re: Release plans
From: |
Lennart Borgman (gmail) |
Subject: |
Re: Release plans |
Date: |
Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:19:37 +0200 |
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Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> constitution to protect it, and this usually works. In maths, there is
> the Axiom of Choice (which is obviously true) and Zorn's Lemma (which is
> patently absurd), yet the two are logically equivalent. Mathematicians
> are fairly relaxed about absurdities and joke about them over an
> afternoon cup of tea.
No math please, that takes too much time ;-)
> Again, with Eric's example of Xrefactory, any hackers who buy that
> product and incorporate it into their development process thereby lose
> some of their freedom - their process has become tied to a product they
> can't control - to some extent. This is another one of these
> contradictions about software freedom - by exercising freedom you
> diminish it.
I am not sure that conclusion is valid. You can think
"Ah, why should people have to buy that sort of software? Everyone can't
do that! I will write a free version of this! Hope someone else will
join ..."
Is not that what often happens?
- Re: Release plans, (continued)
- Re: Release plans, joakim, 2008/08/26
- Re: Release plans, Richard M. Stallman, 2008/08/28
- Re: Release plans, Thomas Lord, 2008/08/19
- Re: Release plans, Alan Mackenzie, 2008/08/19
- Re: Release plans, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/08/25
- Re: Release plans, Alan Mackenzie, 2008/08/25
- Re: Release plans,
Lennart Borgman (gmail) <=
- Re: Release plans, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/08/26
- Re: ["agree"] Release plans, Thomas Lord, 2008/08/26
- Re: ["agree"] Release plans, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/08/27
- Re: ["agree"] Release plans, Thomas Lord, 2008/08/27
- Re: Release plans, Alan Mackenzie, 2008/08/26
- Re: Release plans, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/08/27
- Re: Release plans, Alan Mackenzie, 2008/08/27
- Re: Release plans, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/08/27
- Re: Release plans, Sean Sieger, 2008/08/28
- Re: Release plans, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/08/28