Re: How free is Debian

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Subject: Re: How free is Debian
From: John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com>
Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2019 11:15:18 -0500
Message-id: <[🔎] 87k1bmnwmh.fsf@dhh.gt.org>
Reply-to: jhasler@newsguy.com (John Hasler)
In-reply-to: <[🔎] da5361f7-f705-caea-90c0-7441cb4ee624@tana.it> (Alessandro Vesely's message of "Fri, 9 Aug 2019 17:59:26 +0200")
References: <[🔎] edfdf38c5971a994cc89f10f0318f7853d91a1a6.camel@yahoo.com> <[🔎] 1b5zn8wfli.fsf@pfeifferfamily.net> <[🔎] qig9ka$5jrn$1@blaine.gmane.org> <[🔎] 8736ibres1.fsf@dhh.gt.org> <[🔎] da5361f7-f705-caea-90c0-7441cb4ee624@tana.it>

Alessandro Vesely writes:
> I had always considered those must-reply-yes questions akin to
> extortion.  My answer reflects the only possibility to use something I
> bought, not my free thought.

If the contract is presented before the sale is completed they are not
different from "You must agree to pay us the stated price".  If the
contract is presented afterward they are bluffing.

Determining at what point the sale is completed may not be trivial,
though.
-- 
John Hasler 
jhasler@newsguy.com
Elmwood, WI USA

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- How free is Debian
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- Re: How free is Debian
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- Re: How free is Debian
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