On 24 July 2017 15:05:51 CEST, Adonay Felipe Nogueira <adf...@openmailbox.org> wrote: >Indeed. > >I also agree with this. > >As a subject for another topic, here are other analogies that don't >quite work as we'd expect: > >- "Non-free software is like slavery". However, it isn't, because the > user still has the ultimate choice of not using the non-free software, > no matter how much the switch will cost. > >- "Software is absolutely equal to cooking recipe". However this >doesn't > work because who/what "consumes" the software is the computer, and it > does so blindly (without questioning). Besides, when "consumed" there > is no loss of that particular copy of the software, that is, that > particular copy will still exist.
I often tell people that Skype is like a sausage, you wouldn't eat it if you knew what was inside. _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list Discussion@lists.fsfe.org https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
