Hi, Reading this mail thread gives the message that eventually software freedom will win even in the case of init freedom. However, searching online for various topics often results in howtos that assume one is running systemd. I may be worrying a bit too much, but having howtos assuming systemd is installed will eventually encourage more users to use systemd especially if they are beginners.
Assuming software freedom will settle itself automatically in the case of init freedom is like assuming "an invisible hand" can control prices from rising. Everyone knows what drives private investment is financial gain that prices usually go up instead of going down except for poor products that are almost useless to buy. Something must be done to either upgrade the license of to set up an organisation like freedesktop.org that works for software freedom as we Devuanites understand it. In short, I am afraid making assumptions the tempest will settle down, is a mistake. Edward On 08/06/2016, Peter Olson <pe...@peabo.com> wrote: >> On June 7, 2016 at 5:28 PM KatolaZ <kato...@freaknet.org> wrote: > > [...] > >> 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 >> :)). > > I think my mass might be greater than RMS's, but I wouldn't qualify as a > weapon. > > RMS sets a standard of discourse about software freedom. > > Copyleft is one instance of this, but he continues to illustrate issues that > we might like to be concerned about. > > Peter Olson > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng > _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
