On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 03:25:38PM -0700, J.C. Roberts wrote:
> > I'd love to see how an user who gets a modified binary version has
> > the freedom to modify it. Go ahead. Prove me that it doesn't allow
> > some users to loose freedom...
> 
> Hello again Rui,
> 
> the US. Over here, if you own a copy of a program, you can modify it as 
> much as you want

Good luck doing so without any source code.

> Of course, you are free to have strong feelings about whatever you like, 
> and hold opinions based on flawed understanding, but as long as you 
> insist on remaining uneducated about the laws, you are failing yourself 
> and failing your supposed "duty" to make things clear. Please stop.

You seem uneducated about how powerless someone is without the freedom to
change a program because he has no access to the source code.

You stop.

Rui

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