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Article #73104Re: mailbox full (was Copyleft & royalties for authors)
From: Charles Geyer
Date: Wed, 06 Nov 1991 21:50
Date: Wed, 06 Nov 1991 21:50
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In article <1991Nov6.191536.8674@midway.uchicago.edu>, goer@ellis.uchicago.edu (Richard L. Goerwitz) writes: > The question is whether it is really all that idiosyncratic > to think of freedom as implying a lack of restraint (either monetary, poli- > tical, legal, or otherwise). Do you think that this notion is peculiarly > Goerwitzian? If you do, then I'd have to conclude that you *have* in fact > been deceived by the very doublespeak that you say should never have confused > anyone. > > In fact, copylefted software is heavily restricted, to the point of trying > to enforce upon me a specific way of handling software, and forcing me to get > others to do the same. Again so what? What's a "free man" someone who you can treat in an "unrestricted" fashion". Similarly for "free software". It's software that can't be enslaved. You may not like it, and obviously don't, but there's nothing misleading about it. -- Charles Geyer School of Statistics University of Minnesota charlie@umnstat.stat.umn.edu
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,246c9c7ef4135c55 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-11-06 14:20:36 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!zeus.ieee.org!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!cs.umn.edu!umnstat.stat.umn.edu!charlie From: charlie@umnstat.stat.umn.edu (Charles Geyer) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: mailbox full (was Copyleft & royalties for authors) Message-ID: <1991Nov6.215006.5060@cs.umn.edu> Date: 6 Nov 91 21:50:06 GMT References: <1991Nov5.162743.6167@midway.uchicago.edu> <1991Nov5.230830.14412@midway.uchicago.edu> <1991Nov6.175407.2243@cs.umn.edu> <1991Nov6.191536.8674@midway.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@cs.umn.edu (News administrator) Reply-To: charlie@umnstat.stat.umn.edu (Charles Geyer) Organization: University of Minnesota, School of Statistics Lines: 28 Nntp-Posting-Host: itasca.stat.umn.edu