Steve Langasek: > On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 11:39:29PM +0100, Jérémy Bobbio wrote: > > 3. One test I've been taught to use to reason about free software is the > > Desert Island test [2] which starts by: > > > Imagine a castaway on a desert island with a solar-powered > > computer. > > > Obviously, software that are only frontends to unreproducible “cloud” > > services do not pass the desert island test. > > This is a mischaracterization of the "Desert Island test" as it was > formulated on debian-legal. The Desert Island test is about whether a user > can *comply with the license* of the software on a desert island when they > have no contact with the outside world. Thanks for the correcting my runaway thoughts. :) I'll need to come up with other tools to think about the danger about freedom I perceive from the “cloud”… -- Jérémy Bobbio .''`. lunar@debian.org : :Ⓐ : # apt-get install anarchism `. `'` `-
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