On Tue, 08 Sep 2015 17:09:53 +0200, Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro <[email protected]> wrote:
> I regret that you've released it as non-free software. I wonder what > do you want to achieve, besides power over the users of your package. > You are denying them a freedom they deserve to have No one "deserves" anything. Michael doesn't owe anyone anything. As the author of the software, he gets to decide how it is released. I (and others) appreciate his work, which he has been doing out of his own interest and completely free of charge. If you don't, then don't use it. > they deserve to control their computing And they can - by using an alternative (for example WATTCP has been mentioned - that it isn't maintained is not Michael's problem). > I'd sincerely prefer that you hadn't released your package at all Why? See above. > I urge people [...] to ignore the current version and fork Do that if you prefer so. But don't decide for others; it is their choice. > that value their freedom I also value my freedom. I exercise it by not using products I don't like (and searching for alternatives and in some cases writing them myself). What others do is their own choice. Of course, if you had actually read Michael's message, you would know that he did not say he would never release his source code, making all of this irrelevant. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
