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From: Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz>
To: "Ubuntu user technical support,
	not for general discussions"  <ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com>
Cc: Morton Harrow <mharrow@linuxmail.org>,
	Miod Vallat <miod@online.fr>,
	rms@gnu.org, misc@openbsd.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	fedora-list@redhat.com, announce@fsfeurope.org,
	netbsd-users@netbsd.org, licensing@fsf.org,
	claire.newman@canonical.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: GPL version 4
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 10:12:40 +1300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <494576C8.3020501@paradise.net.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <33958.1216244510@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>

Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 05:31:15 +0800, Morton Harrow said:
>
>   
>> I see with pain in my heart that the GPLv3 doesn't actually give the
>> users of GPLv3 software the liberty and freedom the FSF has been
>> fighting for. Instead they are forced to play by the strict set of
>> terms the GPLv3 provides.
>>     
>
> You missed an important philosophical point.  In Richard Stallman's world view,
> it isn't the user's freedoms that matter, it's the *software*s freedom.
>
>   

I don't think it is that bad - the intent is for the software to be 
freely available for *people* to use. It is actually about our freedom.

regards

Mark

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-12-14 21:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-16 21:31 Morton Harrow
2008-07-16 21:41 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-07-16 22:23   ` Matthias Kilian
2008-12-14 21:12   ` Mark Kirkwood [this message]
2008-12-15  0:27     ` Marco Peereboom
2008-12-15  1:31       ` Mark Kirkwood
2008-12-15  1:44         ` bofh
2008-12-15  1:43     ` Damien Miller
     [not found]     ` <E1LCDed-0001OK-UC@fencepost.gnu.org>
2008-12-15 20:51       ` Chad Perrin
2008-07-16 22:06 ` David Collier-Brown
2008-07-17 21:17   ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2008-07-17 21:24     ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-07-16 22:08 ` Al Viro
2008-07-17  2:12 ` Kasper Sandberg
2008-07-17 11:21 ` Alexandre Oliva
     [not found] <aQmTc-5A5-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
2008-07-18 19:42 ` Bodo Eggert
2008-07-19  0:47   ` David Schwartz
2008-07-19  3:05     ` Eric Furman
     [not found]     ` <E1KKQd9-000114-IV@fencepost.gnu.org>
2008-07-20  8:34       ` Aleksej Saushev
2008-07-20 12:21         ` Charles L. Nelson
2008-07-20 15:15         ` Kasper Sandberg
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-07-17  8:31 Julian H. Stacey
2008-07-16 18:09 Morton Harrow
2008-07-16 18:43 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-07-16 19:14 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-07-16 21:48 ` Jan Engelhardt

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