Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management
C... can't ... resist ....
On 5/19/14, Lee Winter <lee.j.i.winter@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 10:13 AM, Gary Dale <garydale@torfree.net> wrote:
>
> A lot of people responding to this post don't seem to understand that
>> freedom applies to more than just personal choice. The United States was
>> not a free nation while it accepted slavery and Firefox is not free
>> software while it accepts digital restrictions management.
>>
>> Just as no one forced Americans to own slaves, the fact that slavery was
>> allowed was an insult to notion of freedom. Arguing that the "freedom" to
>> choose whether to own slaves or not made Americans freer would be called
>> ridiculous by any sane person, yet the same argument is being bandied
>> about
>> in this discussion as if it made any sense.
>>
>> The Free Software Foundation got this one right.
>
> The above message contains good rhetoric and execrable reasoning.
>
> The above dogma confuses two basic categories of freedoms "freedom from"
> and"freedom to". Freedom from is the ability to avoid undesirable
> situations. Freedom to is the ability to pursue desirable situations.
>
> Being a slavery is something that people tend to avoid.
Not actually sure what this one means.
> So the freedom (or lack thereof) must be assessed
> from the perspective of the slave). If one
Doesn't make sense at all. Mere historical anomaly..
On the other hand, so the freedom (or the lack thereof)
must be assessed from the perspective of the information
(which as we well know, wants to be free).
There is no true freedom until the information is free!
> believes otherwise then, in the vein of the above statements, America_was_
> free because the slave _owners_ were free to own other human beings. Is
> that the freedom you are trying to promote?
Information _is_ free because copyright holders are
free to own the copyrights. Or patents.
> DRM is two things: a legal doctrine and a technical implementation. While
> I believe in protecting the rights of owners of intellectual property,
Ah, so you're a fascist. Shoulda known.
Only drivel comes from information fascists.
Ok, ok, enough already :)
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