Paul Greidanus wrote:
Hi Richard,
I've been marginally following the discussion on OpenBSD and FSF and
of the noise related.
Speaking of FSF.. What if I want to start MY OWN foundation that
guarantees 7 freedoms, or 2 freedoms according to my personal opinion
and philosophy on freedom? And what if I wanted to call it FSF because
according to ME, that was free software? That is my personal opinion
only, of what freedom is. Rather instead of it being called FSF, it is
called by my sur name... the Stallmanist Foundation or the Stallmanism
Philosophy. It is NOT the 'free software foundation' since it is only a
personal opinion. It is not a 'strawberry plant' just because I think
raspberries look just like strawberries in my personal opinion.
Mary's freedom might be different than Jane's freedom.. so one girl's
free philosophy might not be the same as another's free philosophy.
The free software foundation shall not be called free software
foundation.. it shall be called Stallmanist Foundation and the
philosophies are to be outlined as Stallmanism.. not free software. Make
this change immediately in communications and conversation. Do not call
any GNU software 'free software' please, everyone.
If anyone sees the term 'free software' being used, please correct them
and make a big point about it being incorrect and unethical.
One must call it Stallmanism, truthfully and ethically.
For more info, see GNG (gng is not gnu, and gng is not gng).
http://z505.com/gng/stallmanism.htm
I'm curious how you can recomend an OS, like gNewSense that only runs
on non-free hardware, that
has required non-free software to be used in it's creation? Every
time you buy a product from Intel, a portion of that money goes to
companies like Cadence and Mentor Graphics. Now this is non-free in a
monetary sense, but there are also ethical freedom implications.
There are tools that can replace these non-free programs, like gEDA,
which can be used to build processors and components, like are
available on opencores.net and opensparc.net. (I don't know about
these as far as free..) Currently Ubuntu works on ultraSparc-III,
while gNewSense does not. This is telling people that they need to
support non-free software, to even use your free software recomendations?
I do understand that hardware is more difficult and expensive to copy
and distriubute then software, but ethical objections should not be
limited by difficulty.
Trees in the forest are free.. no one said that trees had to be owned by
some government.. they are ours, if we put up a FTF (free tree foundation).
If I take a tree, and turn it into a table.. this table will last me 20
years before it needs a repaint or re-varnish.
Much more free than software. No charging for the table. Only charge for
the gas it took to get the table from Point A to Point B. Do not
purchase tables from your store. It is unethical because you do not
receive tree seeds nor should you pay for proprietary wood that doesn't
even tell you which trees they used to build the table. Only pay a
consultant for shipping the table TO YOU.. not for the table itself.
See also
http://z505.com/gng/ftf.htm
