Re: the freedom to boycott non-free software

[Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@trick.fig.org>]

>>>>> Joseph Carter writes:

 JC> [1 <text/plain; us-ascii (7bit)>] On Fri, May 07, 1999 at
 JC> 01:59:44PM -0600, Gordon Matzigkeit wrote:
 >> As a note, RMS just wrote me back:

 JC> Would you mind posting the whole email?

From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
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    Here's what we've been missing from /philosophy/free-sw.html:

    freedom 4: The freedom to use the program as its author intended,
    without requiring any non-free software.

I don't think this should be a part of the definition
of free software.  Rather, it is a part of the definition
of free software that is useful for a free OS.

Perhaps free-sw.html should say a little about that issue as well
as its current topic.

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