On 13/05/2008, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I use several Lavabit free accounts, and I'm quite happy with them.
So why are you sending from a Gmail account? > The intellectual property stuff doesn't really seem so bad: > > <Quote> > > Intellectual Property > > You acknowledge that Lavabit owns all intellectual property related to > its website and the software used to provide its services. Accordingly > you agree not to copy, reproduce, modify, alter or create derivative > works based on the intellectual property of Lavabit. > > </Quote> > > IANAL, but AFAICT, all they're claiming are the rights to their > software and website. Is that really so objectionable? > Well, the problem with software-as-service is that more and more software is moving in that direction. Google, to mention the villain du jour, has been exploiting the ASP loophole to take free software without giving back. There are rumours of that fabled Ubunut derivative that Google uses internally, and who knows, maybe it powers some of their web servers, but Google hasn't released a single line of code of that derivative, yet they're still profitting off it. It's understandable that this is why Google doesn't condone the AGPL[1] which is designed exactly to close this loophole that Google and presumably Lavabit are exploiting. You take our free code, you have to give back free code. It seems fair to me, but not to Google. They keep saying that code is all going to move to the web browser. If we tolerate non-free code on our browsers for much longer, then all the work that has been done towards giving us all this free code could be endangered. The AGPL is a necessity, and I think it's also important that we insist upon its principles even if it still has a very small level of adoption. Well, so it seems to me. I'm open to hearing opposing viewpoints. - Jordi G. H. [1] http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2008/04/11/google_bans_aero/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
