Hi!
13-Фев-2004 15:06 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Devore) wrote to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
>>MD> Simply because many Open Source/FreeSoftware advocates believe that
>>MD> developers should act a certain way towards source code does not mean that
>>MD> it is what everyone else believes or should believe.
>> You _may_ not believe. There is Microsoft, which doesn't believes. Time
>>shows who is right.
MD> Oh good grief, now I, as a person agitating for more open public domain
MD> software both within FreeDOS and outside of it, am being joined with
MD> Microsoft in its role of the archetypical promoter of closed software. A
MD> foul viper is in your midst, FreeDOS is in peril!
:) Don't generalize my words to your person. :)
I only wish to say, that (IMHO) PD is _not_ "more free", then free
software (in sense of FSF). Let me explain. PD mean (1) missing licenses and
mean (2) full rejection of author rights. FSF (1) defines license (it should
be defined, because we live in real world, where documents, contracts are
important), which (2) protects users rights and tries to (3) protect author
rights (no one may/should stole your work without returning modifications
back). Compromise.
Let view analogy. With anarchy killer may kill anyone with impunity.
But this destroys others rights. When laws are dominate, they (usualy)
(tris to) protect other rights from killer and theft. May be anarchy called
"more freedom"? Yes, this _may_ be _called_ "more freedom", but don't think
that this makes fate of victims easier.
MD> Less colorfully stated, public domain software is further away from the
MD> Microsoft practices you dislike than the open source software practices you
MD> do like.
Reread you statement at top - there you hate "OS/FS advocates". This
(and only this - there are no PD mentions) mentions me MS.
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