Re: [Somewhat More OT] Closed source software Was [Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]]
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Hal Vaughan wrote:
| On Friday 04 April 2008, Chris Walters wrote:
| ...
|> If RMS is basing his ideals on the GNU charter, I don't think he read
|> it clearly enough. "Free: As in freedom". This should apply whether
|> a person wants to use pure open source software, closed source
|> software, or a mix of both. This is freedom.
|
| That is how you and most others would define freedom. It's not how he
| defines it. How you define that word makes a big difference.
|
| Hal
That is true - how is word is defined does make a big difference. For example,
if I define the word "freedom" to mean slavery, and the concept of "human
rights" to mean "the right be be only a slave, or a slave owner", then I am
attacking the language by altering fundamental definitions of word, and concepts.
I know that he doesn't define freedom as I and most others do, but I hope that
he and those others are in the minority fringe.
Chris
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