On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 18:45 -0500, Ean Schuessler wrote: > I guess the question is, staying in the arena of "100% Free", what if > DRM technologies become pervasive in the United States and Europe and > it literally becomes illegal to have a computer without some > proprietary software in it? What if it becomes impossible to develop > on a computer, legally, without compromising? Would it still be better > to have a computer that is 99.9% free? Keep in mind that I'm asking > this in the scenario where providing the last 0.01% as Free Software > would be illegal.
If that happens, we will have to make some difficult choices. But we are nowhere near that now. For example, I vote, as a matter of principle. But if I lived in various extreme situations, I would not vote, for example, if I were in a one-party state with no real elections. And then *that* principle might well be one I would compromise on if the state in question enforced serious criminal penalties on non-voters. And so it goes. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
