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Chris Gianelloni posted <1125494182.7951.27.camel@×××××××××××××××××.net>, |
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excerpted below, on Wed, 31 Aug 2005 09:16:22 -0400: |
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> After all, it would be "slaveryware" if when you walked into CompUSA, |
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> someone bound you, grabbed an NVidia video card, put it in your |
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> computer, then forced you to use it along with the binary drivers |
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> without any choice whatsoever. Nothing is *ever* "slaveryware" so long |
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> as you can choose to not use it, so please, please, PLEASE... DO NOT |
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> EVER USE THAT TERM AGAIN... it is insulting and degrading, as I have |
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> told you multiple times now. Perhaps you could think of something |
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> slightly less offensive to call it, rather than continuing to use a |
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> terminology that implies being bound and forced against one's will? |
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Sigh... |
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<strong-personal-opinion> |
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I offset the remark with <strong-personal-opinion> |
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</strong-personal-opinion>. I said "what I personally call...", and "what |
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I consider", and stated that I understand others don't hold the same |
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opinions and even that were I to force my opinions on them it would IMO be |
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worse than the "slaveryware". |
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If you can't simply accept it as my opinion, even with *ALL* those |
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disclaimers to that effect, if you can't simply skip the paragraph so |
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clearly marked off as <strong-personal-opinion>, than that's your problem, |
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not mine. "Slaveryware" *IS* my personal opinion on the subject, and |
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while you may disagree, and have every right to challenge it publicly, it |
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still remains my personal opinion, which I too have the right to hold, |
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just as you hold yours, and to express. |
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I'm aware of the previous discussions, and they are the reason I wrapped |
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it in the strong-opinion tags, for those who can't stomach such things. |
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More than that, I don't believe you have justification for asking of me, |
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save the same liberty to express your own opinion as I have to express |
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my own. |
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As for the slavery issue, many of them had strong opinions on the subject |
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as well, and some of thse ended up paying for them with their lives. |
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Sure, this hasn't yet come to that, but it's certainly not beyond the |
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possible that the ideals of freedomware might at some point cost someone |
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their livelihood, and even their freedom, if law such as the DMCA |
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continues to be made. Freedomware is a concept I believe in strongly |
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enough that I (at least like to think I... one never can say for sure |
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until faced with the stark question) could choose to exercise the rights I |
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believe I hold, even at the cost of my freedom, if it comes to that, and |
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my use of the terms freedomware and slaveryware are intended to emphasize |
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the strength of that belief. I (hope I) would choose the ideals of |
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freedom, even if it cost me my own. Is that something you can say for the |
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concept of freedom software, or indeed, freedom in general? Not that I'm |
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necessarily willing to condemn anyone who can't say they'd make the same |
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choice, because it is after all a very personal choice, but I'm glad there |
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are at least a /few/ out there that consider it, and proud to be one of |
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them. |
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</strong-personal-opinion> |
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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 in |
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http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html |
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