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> -----Original Message----- |
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> From: felix@×××××××.com [mailto:felix@×××××××.com] |
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> Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 11:25 AM |
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> To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o |
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> Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift - |
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> slaveryware) |
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> With Linux, even |
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> if I can't do it, there are hundreds of thousands of people who could, |
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> and it would only take a few bucks or a good friend to do it. It is |
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> not only possible, easily, but also there is a lot of choice on how to |
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> do it. That is the essence of freedom. |
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That's a very shallow definition of the "essence of freedom," from the |
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perspective of most end users, your scenario doesn't really change anything. |
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>From the end users perspective s/he is still dependent on someone else to |
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make the changes. I wouldn't say having a choice of who to be dependent upon |
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actually qualifies as "freedom." |
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> It absolutely is just like a car, or a house, or anything else. If my |
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> house could only be modified by the original builder, it would never |
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> be modified -- I'd never even get a picture hung for want of being |
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> able to put a nail in a stud. Now maybe I can't add a drawbridge to |
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> my house myself, I can't do the welding or design, but my friend |
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> could, and did. |
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Analogies suck, software isn't a car, or a house, or anything else, it's |
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software. If you can't make you're point without analogies, maybe you |
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haven't thought it through clearly enough. |
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> There is a HUGE difference between slaveryware and freedomware. |
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No there's not, they are just hyperbolic words that have little actual |
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meaning behind them, at least none that can be supported with concrete |
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reason and logic. |
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> A |
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> vital essential difference. It is why I run Linux myself. |
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I run Linux also, why else would I be subscribed to this list, I just don't |
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blindly accept everything that R. Stallman, or the FSF, or anyone else says. |
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I consider the facts, and look at the reality of the situation, and decide |
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for myself what opinion to take. |
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Regards |
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Bob Young |
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