RE: [fsf-community-team] Why should we talk about the freedom?

[three]

Those are all great ways to show people the power/usefulness of Free
Software there is only one problem... Opera is non-free software.  I
know it is available for GNU+Linux but it is a proprietary binary only.

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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [fsf-community-team] Why should we talk about the freedom?
> From: Simon Bridge <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, December 16, 2009 5:06 am
> To: address@hidden
> 
> 
> This got posted on the NZLUG lists... lock and load:
> 
> > The average bloke doesn't give a monkeys about libre. For too long
> > open
> > source zealots have been pushing the libre side, when really the four
> > freedoms mainly apply to the freedom of programmers. After reading a
> > recent blog i now follow the belief that we should be pushing the
> > merits
> > of the individual programs: compiz to teens, OO.o export to PDF to
> > whoever needs that ability, AdBlock Plus on Firefox to all internet
> > users, LAMP stacks for the web, Opera and SVG for the web (especially
> > gradient curved corner backgrounds){Firefox won't do CSS SVG}, 500 top
> > supercomputer stats to big business and SELinux (which was started by
> > the USA NSA) to security conscious companies. 
> > 
> 
> Practice picking this apart.