MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a tapoté :
> On 2003-09-12 10:28:38 +0100 Mathieu Roy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > because it's out of the scope of
> > _software_, indeed, unless you pretend that any work on earth is
> > software).
>
> Mathieu can say this as much as he likes, but it does not make it
> true. It is not necessary to pretend that all works are software,
> just to know that all works in Debian are software. What is true,
> definitely for Debian and probably in general, is that these works on
> computer are software. Once again, people who disagree with Debian's
> definition of free software may have to collect some things that they
> think free from outside Debian: this is not new.
>
> The difference is not in spirit, but semantics: GNU has defined
> "software" as a synonym for "programs" which seems odd to me and seems
> to open a can of worms about literate programming, opinion pieces on
> sources, ktp.
Software: "(computer science) written programs or procedures
or rules and associated documentation pertaining to the operation
of a computer system and that are stored in read/write memory"
(from WordNet 1.7).
I think you have an extraordinary large definition of software,
unfortunately not shared by all the dictionnaries I know.
For most people on earth, I do not think that software defines "theses
works" (philosophical/political/historical texts) that may be "on
computer".
However, you can have your own definition of software. But it's seems
to me just a poor way to defend what seems to be your true feeling:
that every texts, of every kind, on computer or not, should follow the
Free Software rules.
Regards,
--
Mathieu Roy
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