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[DPRG] Software Support (WAS:Examination of Free Software)
Subject: [DPRG] Software Support (WAS:Examination of Free Software)
From: Randy M. Dumse
rmd at newmicros.com
Date: Tue Sep 30 17:19:29 CDT 2008
Doug Emes said: Monday, September 15, 2008 1:01 PM
> Last time I checked, all the bruhaha was about including
> licenses with the software... If we truly didn't worry about
> "ownership" - then there would be no license whatsoever.
> Think about it deeply. I'm not talking about the M.I.T.
> license, which tries to state freedom.
I think you hit the nail on the head, Doug. If it was free
software, it would be free. Instead it comes with a license that
says, you use this free software, then I own your output, and
can tell you what you can do with your labor, that you have to
give it away too. That's a very un-free approach. In some
parlances of past political incorrectness, such free handouts
were done by those considered undesirables, "Indian givers".
You can give away your property rights. Doing so gives you no
control over my property rights. In that sense, the various free
softwares are truly insidious, in a similar sense to the
references about being a communist plot.
If they wanted freedom, all they have to do is give it away. As
you said, think about it deeply. It is not their freedom they
want and try to contract for, but the restriction of yours.
Randy
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