On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 22:34 -0400, Jason Dixon wrote: > GPL advocates claim their license prevents commercial entities from > stealing their freedom. These are the same people who have no > problem giving up their freedoms (in the form of NDA's, closed-source > kernel modules, etc) to the companies they're trying to fight.
True free software movement supporters will not sign an agreement not to help their neighbor such as an NDA. Some in the open source movement have no trouble accepting a binary only driver, or specifications under NDA, or what have you, for convenience. That's what open source is about: convenience, not freedom for its own sake. This is exactly why it is important to make a distinction between the free software movement and the open source movement and not lump the two together. -- Shawn K. Quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
