Fedora Freedom and linux-libre

max maximilianbianco at gmail.com
Tue Jun 17 14:20:53 UTC 2008


Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> Anders Karlsson wrote:
>> * David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org> [20080617 15:22]:
>> [snip]
>>
>> Sounds to me like the argument circles around some warped
>> interpretations of the conundrum if a hamburger in a cardboard box is
>> a piece of the box or if it in fact, is a hamburger that can be eaten
>> separately without having to eat the box too...
>>
> No.  It's more along the lines of having a cheeseburger with lettuce, 
> tomatoes, and onions in a carboard box.  The box is the medium in which 
> the cheeseburger is distributed.  But are the pieces inside merely 
> aggregated together or are they part of a single work?  After all, you 
> can take the cheeseburger apart and consume the bun, the burger, the 
> lettuce, etc separately (or not at all).  But the person who prepared it 
> and distributed it to you didn't intend for that to happen.
> 
> -Toshio "who will go back to ignoring this thread now" Kuratomi
> 

Wouldn't you have to have not been ignoring this thread to make that 
statement?

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