This is a Fedora list, not your personal list for persuing your noble quest. Take it elsewhere. > -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:fedora-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rui Miguel Seabra > Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 10:35 AM > To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Non FOSS and Fedora > > > On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 17:23, Paul Thomas wrote: > > On 12/01/2004 10:16 Rui Miguel Seabra wrote: > > > [snip] > > > than their Free Software counterparts, but remember that non-Free > > > software brings a social cost that is very bad: social division > > > between those who can and those who can't. > > > > As does non-free hardware, housing, food, clothing, medical costs, > > education. In a world where many millions of people don't > have enough food > > to survive, your commentary seems to me to be rather childish. > > Please explain, in paper-like detail, how is something that > is replicated at zero cost (digital content, namely software) > equal to something that has real replication costs (hardware, > housing, food, clothing, medical treatment, education, etc...). > > When the replication cost is nil and thus the good is > technically accessible to the whole population, isn't it evil > to create an artificial division? What if instead of the > digital world it was food we were talking about... imagine > Food Replicators, converting garbage or Fudge into food, > would you be in favor of "Recipe Licenses" or the end of hunger? > > Non-Free software creates social division between those who > can and those who can't solely by an *artificial*monopoly* > power granted by the government. > > Remove the artificial monopoly bad effects (ie, using Free > Software) and there is no division that is artificially created. > > Hardware, housing, food, clothing, medical treatment, > education, etc... they all have real costs since there are > yet no Star Trek replicator machines, the division between > those who can and those who can't is very real, and not > created by artificial means. > > Free Software ends the "knowledge hunger" on software. > > 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 >
