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"Bob Young" <BYoung@××××××××××.com> posted |
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FAEEIJPAOFEMBBLKPMJEAEMAHKAA.BYoung@××××××××××.com, excerpted below, on |
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Fri, 29 Sep 2006 15:42:50 -0700: |
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> Would you go to war, or be willing to die for the "freedom" that open |
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> source provides? If not, then equating it with the freedoms that real mean |
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> and women have fought and died for is to marginalize the importance the |
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> word is meant to convey. |
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As I said elsewhere, while I can't honestly say I'm to that point /yet/, I |
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/can/ honestly say that I believe I /should/ be to that point. Further, |
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I realize and have accepted the possibility of the loss of physical |
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freedoms to ensure mental freedoms. (IOW, it's possible and has already |
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happened for some, that freedom software and/or a refusal to submit to |
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the ban on reverse engineering in the EULA with most unfreedom (aka |
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slavery) software and in some laws, results in imprisonment. I recognize |
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and accept that as a risk of positively asserting software freedoms.) |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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