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Re: Lawyer's evaluation
From: |
Miles Bader |
Subject: |
Re: Lawyer's evaluation |
Date: |
22 Sep 2003 11:02:03 +0900 |
"Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden> writes:
> Miles> Yeah, I agree -- in my mind, perhaps the _most_ important
> Miles> (important to me, that is :-) thing to say while you've got
> Miles> the user's attention, is `This is Free Software (as in
> Miles> freedom), there's a lot more of it, and a great community
> Miles> to back it up. Wanna join?'
>
> How about
>
> "The following General Public License states and protects additional
> rights, the rights that constitute true software freedom, that you
> possess."
>
> OR
>
> "The following General Public License states and protects additional
> rights, the rights that make GNU Emacs truly free software, that you
> possess."
No, those miss the point entirely.
`Emacs is Free Software'
I.e. establish the term `Free Software' as a category. Names are
important. Muttering on about `true software freedom' and `truly free
software' seems to simply try and avoid doing this (not to mention
risking flamewars from BSD fans :-).
-Miles
--
`Cars give people wonderful freedom and increase their opportunities.
But they also destroy the environment, to an extent so drastic that
they kill all social life' (from _A Pattern Language_)
- Lawyer's evaluation, Richard Stallman, 2003/09/18
- Re: Lawyer's evaluation, Miles Bader, 2003/09/18
- Re: Lawyer's evaluation, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2003/09/19
- Re: Lawyer's evaluation, Kim F. Storm, 2003/09/24
- Re: Lawyer's evaluation, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2003/09/24
- Re: Lawyer's evaluation, Kim F. Storm, 2003/09/24
- Re: Lawyer's evaluation, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2003/09/24
- Re: Lawyer's evaluation, Richard Stallman, 2003/09/25
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- Re: Lawyer's evaluation, David Kastrup, 2003/09/25
- Re: Lawyer's evaluation, Richard Stallman, 2003/09/26