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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, February 17 2013 @ 02:24 PM EST |
Proprietary licenses doesn't further the development. Openness does.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, February 17 2013 @ 02:42 PM EST |
61pp, 245 footnotes, it would be easy to misquote Asay. I don't know
what he says, I've had to put it in my ever-expanding read-later folder.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, February 17 2013 @ 04:14 PM EST |
ESR and his Nineties called - want their 'Open Source' vs. 'Free Software'
argument back.
That's the impression I was left with. Okay, he updated it a bit and argued
about cloud computing, but the basic argument has been raised before. And shot
down in flames (no pun intended).
Who is he shilling for?
-- mschmitz (NLI)
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, February 18 2013 @ 01:25 AM EST |
GPL is about guaranteeing the freedoms of users, not the freedoms of developers
- so the argument is completely on the wrong track to start with.
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| Authored by: jbb on Monday, February 18 2013 @ 06:59 PM EST |
From the fine article:
Free software is built on a paradox. In
order to give freedom to users, free software licences use something that takes
away freedom – copyright, which is an intellectual monopoly based on limiting
people's freedom to share, not enlarging it.
Democracy is
built on a paradox. In order to give freedom to citizens,
democracies uses something that takes away freedom – the rule of
law,
these laws are based on limiting people's freedom, not enlarging
it.
As Zechariah Chafee, Jr. said in in the Harvard Law
Review:
Each side takes the position of the man who was arrested
for swinging his arms and hitting another in the nose, and asked the judge if he
did not have a right to swing his arms in a free country. "Your right to swing
your arms ends just where the other man’s nose
begins."
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Our job is to remind ourselves that there are
more contexts
than the one we’re in now — the one that we think is reality.
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