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felix@×××××××.com posted 20060929183339.GB571@×××××××.com, excerpted |
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below, on Fri, 29 Sep 2006 11:33:39 -0700: |
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> On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 04:03:25PM -0700, Bob Young wrote: |
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>> That's almost entirely a theoretical difference, in the real world this |
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>> "freedom" is actually exercised very little if at all. |
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> Almost?!? How many people actually use the freedoms guaranteed by the US |
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> constitution? For almost all of them, it is a theoretical freedom they |
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> never use. |
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I was trying /very/ hard not to open up another can of worms, at least |
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keeping it as much to software as possible. I tend to agree and would |
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normally continue this angle, but this isn't really the place for |
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the discussion after it has left software entirely. |
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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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