Adam Warner wrote:
What was a substantial freedom as part of GNU philosophy--"the freedom to make modifications and use them privately in your own work or play, without even mentioning that they exist"--is now only useful to hermits and leeches. Anyone contributing by providing an electronic service would no longer have any expectation of being able to keep modifications private.
Of course, this all depends on what the arguer believes "private"
means. You don't need to attribute nefarious motives to rms - he (and
others) may simply disagree with you about when and how an activity/use
stops being private.
As for "hermits and leeches", why are casting aspersions? What do you
mean by "contributing by providing ..." if the modifications are not
released? Why isn't that being a leech? There are a lot of programs
that can do interesting things without having anything to do with a
network.
Lynn