12 Aug
2012
12 Aug
'12
12:34 p.m.
Am Tuesday 07 August 2012 04:26:05 schrieb Bryan Baldwin:
On 08/07/2012 05:04 AM, Dexter Filmore wrote:
The metaphor eludes my grasp, sorry.
Do you mean by this you prefer poor free software
over proper
proprietary?
By this I mean retaining freedom over relinquishing it in exchange for
the technological equivalent of rifles and blankets.
This is a variation of the old and tired bit of husksterism, which
My standard translation sources do not even list that word or similar ones.
goes, "If you object to nonfree X, then you would
have gotten rid of
nonfree Y." Which is rubbish.
Yes, quite obviously. Yet again I did not see anybody make such a claim.
Quite frankly, I do not see your point or an answer to my question or where
this is leading.
Technological freedom movements are not about auditing
the contents of
peoples closets.
Claim never made either. You keep pointing out things that are wildly
outlandish and nobody had a point for or against or even loosely connected
to.
What is this?
People who care about freedom might tell you why
nonfree is bad for you, but its not about telling users what to do.
Its about examining the things developers are distributing to users,
Examining as an assessment instance?
criticizing the nonfree things, and promoting and
developing
alternatives that support freedom.
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