[POLITICS] Re: When is the Last Time You Booted to Windows?

[Mike McCarty]

Joel Rees wrote:
> 
> On 2006/02/18, at 14:01, Les Mikesell wrote:

>> You don't make something free by adding restrictions.
> 
> 
> It's the oldest, most trite and over-used example in the philosophy,  
> but how do you keep a kite in the air? If you let go of the string,  how 
> long does it fly?

I've released some software which I wanted people to be free
to use as they wished. I put them into the public domain. THAT
is freedom.

[snip]

> of geeks. The target market is _still_ people who are willing  to trade 
> a little work for a lot of freedom from (you know this)  restrictive 
> EULAs and the various kinds of malware that world breeds  like, well, 
> mold in the fridge (or virii in overworked sinuses in  spring).

GPL is an extremely restrictive EULA itself.

>> You don't increase sharing by restricting how
>> sharing can be done.
> 
> 
> No one is restricting anything. This is the license that incubated  
> Linux. Nothing has changed.

Eh? GPL restricts redistribution.

[snip]

> Actually, all the argument we are going through here now is  irrelevant. 
> The way of the future is for supply side and demand side  to treat each 
> other as equals. It will happen, no matter how much  anyone fights it now.

This seems to me to be an argument based on the idea of
exploiting and exploited classes. It seems to presuppose
that when an exchange is made, then one side benefits,
and the other loses.

Mike
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