On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 22:03, Mark Mielke wrote: > > I, as a user, DO CARE. I do not want to feel I'm doing something wrong, > > if I'm trying to help my other friend, who knows even less than I do, > > but I am torn between respecting the author of a program or my > > friendship. > The author of the program is legally allowed to control distributions > rights to their program. Your friendship has on place in a court of law. No. I have a better way: I solve the problem by avoiding it completely, using only Free Software. > Have you considered that by installing software for your friend(s), > when they, according to you, are incapable of doing it themselves, you > may be *hurting* your friend? Having open ports on the Internet can be > an open invitation for hacking. Perhaps your friend(s) should *learn* to > do it themselves? Now you're hurting me, I think I'm not an incompetent sysadmin, and I would never willing leave a poisoned gift :) It would be the same as demanding all people to learn how to fix their cars instead of going to a mechanic! > > I, as a system administrator, DO CARE. I do not want to mingle with > > software that has unfair restrictions, which might hurt my company or a > > sub-company I may have the need to redistribute the software. > > Being able to use software, distribute changes, and even in this case, > distribute change source or binary installations, is a *privilege* > granted to you by specific providers, and *not* by others. Of course. But it is still dishonorable to place restriction over sharing knowledge. > Your company or sub-company is taking advantage of free products to minimize > your overhead. If you won't pay to use a product, why should you be able to > demand distribution rights for it? Because all software should be Free (as in speech)? Because "my company" (not the one I'm working at currently, unfortunately) can be in the business with Free Software, producing more Free Software along the way as well? There's many hypothesis, even on hypothetical cases :) > > There's a couple of reasons TO CARE. > > You, however, keep looking into your belly button satisfied with what > > you get and advising people to NOT CARE. > > Who's wrong? > > You, obviously. You want to be able to redistribute somebody else's code > for your own profit, against the wishes of the author. > > Morally, as a person, this attitude of yours leaves much to be desired. I don't know... I think you're completely misunderstanding how Free Software works, and assuming a rather negative perspective over people you don't know at all <:| Even in the case of DJB's software, nothing forbids commercial redistribution. Rui -- + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown + Whatever you do will be insignificant, | but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi + So let's do it...? Please AVOID sending me WORD, EXCEL or POWERPOINT attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
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