Re: [GNU-linux-libre] A call to free software, and its users

[Diego Saravia]

El 18 de agosto de 2009 23:17, Alexandre Oliva<address@hidden> escribió:
> On Aug 18, 2009, Rubén Rodríguez Pérez <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Gnash allows you -with no non-free software required- to view animations
>> stored in a proprietary format, like Abiword can open a word file.
>
>> Also remember: a non-free firmware file is *not* data in a proprietary
>> format (like a word file), it is a non-free program. So using Gnash as a
>> comparison is misleading.
>
> The comparison is not as misleading as it might seem, because
> Flash/ShockWave files often contain actual programs written in
> ActionScript (a variant of JavaScript/ECMAScript).  Most such programs
> are non-Free.

trying to separate code from data is like argue about angel's shoulders

every data codification could be use to encode software, or seen as software


>
> Gnash won't stop you from running them, but there's nothing in Gnash
> that asks the user (or any other piece of software) for any non-Free
> Software.

It runs non-free without asking!!!!




  It is only an enabler, not a promoter of non-Free Software.
> Very much like say GNU libc.
>
> Linux, OTOH, even if all pieces of non-Free Software are removed from
> its guts, is still more than an enabler of the use of non-Free Software.
> It's a promoter, because it contains drivers that request specific
> pieces of non-Free Software.  Nearly all drivers that do refuse to work
> until you satisfy their demand.
>
> --
> Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighter    http://FSFLA.org/~lxoliva/
> You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Gandhi
> Be Free! -- http://FSFLA.org/   FSF Latin America board member
> Free Software Evangelist      Red Hat Brazil Compiler Engineer
>
>
>



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Diego Saravia
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