El 2022-02-23 18:13, faifl...@danwin1210.de escribió: >> Oh, you want to educate the user to use his/hers freedom in a proper way. > >> That's interesting! > > > Freedom has typically moved forward more quickly with advocacy and > education (to the benefit of the free) than without. This doesn't negate > the idea that such opportunities to educate can be abused. Opportunists > are a thing. > > But to assume or imply that everyone who uses education to advance freedom > is an opportunist (without evidence) is basically to confuse freedom with > ignorance. A person can be free in their ignorance, but they are usually > MORE free when they know more about freedom. > > Or perhaps this was obvious, and you weren't being sarcastic. It wasn't > very clear from your post.
Thank you for your clarification. Nevertheless, I have never opposed helping users learn about freedom. On the contrary, if a distribution says it is free, but it includes nonfree software, it is in practice misrepresenting itself. That is not helping users learn. (I do not like the word education because I relate it to the formal education system which I think is hostile to learning and more akin to standardization. Standards should be imposed on things, not on people. People should be encouraged to be diverse and creative, not standard.) Advocacy for freedom does not advocate using nonfree software. Using some nonfree software when reducing its use is rather sometimes a step. But it is better not to add nonfree software to the solution because most people do not understand it is a step. They think that using a mixture is the destination and miss the point of being free. When did I talk about opportunists? I just made clear that Fedora is not free and that I do not support it. Maybe you consider that opportunism. I do sometimes. But not always. A person is not free unless they know what is not being free because they are not aware that they are under some else's control. We must taste both sides to value freedom. _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list Discussion@lists.fsfellowship.eu https://lists.fsfellowship.eu/mailman/listinfo/discussion
