On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 04:56:12PM -0500, David Turner wrote: > That's not the argument that I understand Debian has for Free Software. Careful, I'm not sure "Debian" *has* an argument for Free Software. It's kind of an axiomatic principle for us. :) > As I understand Debian's position, Free Software isn't about > commodotizing technology, but about allowing users the freedom to alter > and share the software they use. If I'm wrong, and these aren't > Debian's principles, then we first need to figure out what Debian's > principles are. But nobody argued when Brandon proposed that the FSF's > Four Freedoms be the "constitution" of license interpretation, and the > four freedoms arne't about "outsourcing R&D costs." I'm not sure these points are really in tension. Economies behave in certain ways as a result of the underlying organizational and social principles. I am not sure that the routine "outsourcing of R&D costs" and "commodization of [software] technology" aren't simply the natural, "logical" phenomena that result in the Free Software marketplace. -- G. Branden Robinson | Suffer before God and ye shall be Debian GNU/Linux | redeemed. God loves us, so He branden@debian.org | makes us suffer Christianity. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Aaron Dunsmore
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