Fedora Desktop future- RedHat moves
max bianco
maximilianbianco at gmail.com
Sat Apr 26 03:36:12 UTC 2008
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 10:42 PM, Les <hlhowell at pacbell.net> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 13:45 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> > Why should I be interested in a distribution that makes it
> > difficult
> > for me to make my own choices about whether a license is acceptable
> > or
> > not? I don't have a problem with downloading my own copy of any
> > particular code from any particular place under any conditions that I
> > find acceptable.
> But that is the problem. The folks with proprietary want to limit your
> use to only the systems they have chosen to support, thus you can end up
> with instruments or software that you have purchased that will not run
> when the OS changes. Furthermore their licenses forbid you from reverse
> engineering the code to figure out how to make it work some where else,
> and the owner of the proprietary OS won't let you do any reverse
> engineering legally to figure out how to interface to the software or
> hardware he/she/it chooses to no longer support. Thus you are obsoleted
> with no legal recourse. Those lovely sites where you download such
> utilities are often legally not clean to use either, depending upon the
> laws that the various entities have seen fit to pass. Finally your own
> documents, code and other encoded data may be unaccessable to you
> either, because the formatting, encoding, encryption or compression may
> be proprietary and non disclosed with the attendant no reverse
> engineering clauses, leaving you without access even to your own
> material.
>
> That is why these licenses, and the subject of libre or free software is
> important.
>
> Regards,
> Les H
>
>
Adobe Flash is something I can't for the life of me figure out why
anyone would use. You can't kill the adds like you can with gnash and
it leaves a gaping security hole in everything it touches.
Max
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