Steve Langasek:
> On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 11:39:29PM +0100, Jérémy Bobbio wrote:
> > 3. One test I've been taught to use to reason about free software is the
> > Desert Island test [2] which starts by:
>
> > Imagine a castaway on a desert island with a solar-powered
> > computer.
>
> > Obviously, software that are only frontends to unreproducible “cloud”
> > services do not pass the desert island test.
>
> This is a mischaracterization of the "Desert Island test" as it was
> formulated on debian-legal. The Desert Island test is about whether a user
> can *comply with the license* of the software on a desert island when they
> have no contact with the outside world.
Thanks for the correcting my runaway thoughts. :)
I'll need to come up with other tools to think about the danger
about freedom I perceive from the “cloud”…
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Jérémy Bobbio .''`.
lunar@debian.org : :Ⓐ : # apt-get install anarchism
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