On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 12:22:58PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > SUMMARY > ------- > > The Secretary has advanced a document outlining his plans and opinion > for conducting a vote on GR 8, advanced by myself. His plans rest in > incorrect premises and draw incorrect conclusions. Below you will > find my analysis and a point-by-point analysis of his comments.
... In a really fundamental way articles 1 and 5 of the Social Contract are at odds with one and other. In this day and age it is clear that the act of "distribution" is one that will be carried out electronically and not physically. Since article 1 comes first and 5 comes last I think that it is easy to see where the priorities of the contract lie. This seems to be a hold-over from when FTP largely served to feed CD manufacturers who then created a product for the general public. Removing non-free at that time would have created a serious problem for people trying to get to that software. With the advent of broadband, the growth of commercial Linux software and other factors, article 5 looks more and more like an appendage. Why should we make this difficult? Lets just have a vote on it without special treatment. -- ___________________________________________________________________ Ean Schuessler Director of Strategic Weapons Systems Brainfood, Inc. A Devices that Kill People company *** WARNING: This signature may contain jokes.
