On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 05:31:18PM +0100, Simon Hobson wrote: > KatolaZ <kato...@freaknet.org> wrote: > > > Despite being originally intended as a "guerrilla weapon" (and RMS and > > the others were very careful at designing it), copyleft is indeed the > > only way to keep free software free, forever. > > Indeed. > I've heard a few descriptions of RMS - most of them uncomplimentary. Having > met him, I can see why many people dislike him - he does come across very > much as the stereotypical geek with no social skills (mind you, me writing > that does involve a certain amount of "pot, kettle, black" - fill in the rest > !) > I can understand his POV, though I'm very much in the pragmatism camp and use > a mix of free and closed software. But, I respect his position - and I > respect the fact that without people like him, we would not have the freedoms > we have now. That's important to remember. >
My point was not at all about RMS. My point was about copyleft. Now we can divert the discussion as far as we want, but I was expressing *my* point of view, not the point of view of RMS. And my point is that we already have a powerful weapon to use against any power that wants to give a too-tight-hug to the free software community, and that weapon is called *copyleft* (not RMS, which would be quite a cumbersome weapon to wield anyway, given the mass involved :)). HND KatolaZ -- [ ~.,_ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ - GLUGCT -- Freaknet Medialab ] [ "+. katolaz [at] freaknet.org --- katolaz [at] yahoo.it ] [ @) http://kalos.mine.nu --- Devuan GNU + Linux User ] [ @@) http://maths.qmul.ac.uk/~vnicosia -- GPG: 0B5F062F ] [ (@@@) Twitter: @KatolaZ - skype: katolaz -- github: KatolaZ ] _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
