On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 02:31:28PM -0400, Brian T. Sniffen wrote: > So no, buying closed proprietary code and releasing it under the GPL > (e.g., Blender) does not give me any freedoms I didn't have before. > It merely gives me technical capabilities I hadn't had before. > You can't give me freedom. I've got it innately, unless I relinquish > it or it is taken from me by force. "We have sought to disperse power, to set men and women free. That really means: to help them discover that they are free. Everybody's free. The slave is free. The ultimate weapon isn't this plague out in Vegas, or any new super H-bomb. The ultimate weapon has always existed. Every man, every woman, and every child owns it. It's the ability to say /No/ and take the consequences. 'Fear is failure.' 'The fear of death is the beginning of slavery.' 'Thou hast no right but to do thy will.' The goose can break the bottle at any second. Socrates took the hemlock to prove it. Jesus went on the cross to prove it. It's in all history, all myth, all poetry. It's right out in the open all the time" -- Hagbard Celine, who was probably stoned at the time As usual, it's like the verbal form of LSD, but once you disentangle that you tend to avoid using the word "freedom" much. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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