Re: non-free and users?
On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 12:26:34AM +0100, Sergey V. Spiridonov wrote:
> I do not know ... I know ...
OK.
> I think we got an agreement on what is that action which is the source
> of all problems specific to non-free. It is distribution under non-free
> license.
No, you can have problems specific to the license without distribution.
For example, if the problem is that you can't distribute it.
> We also (I hope) got an agreement on the fact that providing
> people of what they need is good.
Sometimes. However, if providing what one person needs would harm
someone else, that wouldn't be good. This sort of situation tends to
require a specific judgement call, and different people would tend to
make different decisions, based on their own outlooks and priorities.
> We got an agreement (probaly I am too optimistic) on those examples
> which I provide, at least regarding the question on how the evil is
> produced. Is this true?
If by agreement, you mean "recognition that there are cases where your
examples accurately represent the situation", then yes.
If by agreement, you mean "belief that your examples accurately represent
all situations they potentially describe", then no.
--
Raul
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