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Re: referencing non-free software
From: |
Francesco Ariis |
Subject: |
Re: referencing non-free software |
Date: |
Tue, 9 Jan 2018 21:39:30 +0100 |
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NeoMutt/20170113 (1.7.2) |
On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 02:52:00PM -0500, Ilya Shlyakhter wrote:
> "Of the many things you can accuse the FSF of, this is not one
> of them" -- It's a direct quote from
> https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/shouldbefree.html .
Touché. You left out:
> Those who benefit from the current system where programs are property
> offer two arguments in support of their claims to own programs: the
> emotional argument and the economic argument.
the "emotional argument" being applicable here (at the risk of
being wrong again, I did not find that specific beOrg quote via
a customary search; I am ready to concede he will licence it under
a free-software licence once users start to flock in numbers).
I think it is unfair quote to the FSF, as they worked very hard to
dismantle the `libre == gratis` equivalence. :)
I am not going to be embroiled in this any further; *some* of the
arguments you made in this and the orgmode ML threads seems to come
from an open-source perspective.
Again, nothing wrong with it, but when it's ethically a no-no (from
a free software perspective) and practically dubious (i.e. is there
any evidence people are turned away from Org because because of it?),
I can see how the developers aren't impressed much by the pitch.
- Re: referencing non-free software, (continued)
Re: referencing non-free software, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2018/01/09
- Re: referencing non-free software, Ilya Shlyakhter, 2018/01/09
- Re: referencing non-free software, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2018/01/09
- Re: referencing non-free software, Ilya Shlyakhter, 2018/01/09
- Re: referencing non-free software, Francesco Ariis, 2018/01/09
- Re: referencing non-free software, Ilya Shlyakhter, 2018/01/09
- Re: referencing non-free software, Ilya Shlyakhter, 2018/01/09
- Re: referencing non-free software,
Francesco Ariis <=
- Re: referencing non-free software, Ilya Shlyakhter, 2018/01/09
- Why is it ethical not to write a program at all (Was: referencing non-free software), Dmitry Alexandrov, 2018/01/10
Re: referencing non-free software, Dmitry Alexandrov, 2018/01/09
Re: referencing non-free software, J.B. Nicholson, 2018/01/09
Re: referencing non-free software, Dmitry Alexandrov, 2018/01/09
Re: referencing non-free software, J.B. Nicholson, 2018/01/09
Re: referencing non-free software, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2018/01/10
Re: referencing non-free software, Francesco Ariis, 2018/01/09