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Re: [fsfc-discuss] "FSF Canada"
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Russell McOrmond |
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Re: [fsfc-discuss] "FSF Canada" |
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Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:14:11 -0500 |
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On 12-02-20 01:44 PM, Richard Stallman wrote:
Programmers can't work in handcuffs.
could be a good slogan. But we need one involving users too,
and that's not so much about "working".
I guess from a policy point of view I don't see there as being as big
distinction as you are making between programmers and users of existing
programs.
A software developer can make choices about individual instructions
that a computer will follow, assembling those instructions together in a
program.
A software user can make choices about groups of instructions in the
form of a completed program.
Both rely on the ability of the owner of a computer being able to
make their own software choices in order to be able to instruct their
computers (directly as a programmer, indirectly as a user of someone
elses program) to perform whatever lawful task they may wish to put
their computer to.
Anything that prohibits the owner from making their own software
choices harms all technology owners. This is true if they are a
creator of copyrighted works (composer/writer, performer, maker of
sound/motion recordings, whatever) trying to use their computer to
record/edit/communicate works where they are the copyright holder, or if
they are the audience of those works. All these people are dependent
on being able to make their own software choices in order to use
computers for what they want them to do, rather than what someone else
wants to allow them to do.
Whether you are a "creator" or a "user" of copyrighted works, you
are an "owner" of a computer where you and not third parties must be
able to make your own independent software choice.
--
Russell McOrmond, Internet Consultant: <http://www.flora.ca/>
Please help us tell the Canadian Parliament to protect our property
rights as owners of Information Technology. Sign the petition!
http://l.c11.ca/ict
"The government, lobbied by legacy copyright holders and hardware
manufacturers, can pry my camcorder, computer, home theatre, or
portable media player from my cold dead hands!"
- [fsfc-discuss] Canadian Free Software community taking on Bill C-11, (continued)
- [fsfc-discuss] Canadian Free Software community taking on Bill C-11, Russell McOrmond, 2012/02/19
- Re: [fsfc-discuss] Canadian Free Software community taking on Bill C-11, Richard Stallman, 2012/02/19
- Re: [fsfc-discuss] Canadian Free Software community taking on Bill C-11, Reid Ellis, 2012/02/21
- Re: [fsfc-discuss] Canadian Free Software community taking on Bill C-11, Richard Stallman, 2012/02/25
- Re: [fsfc-discuss] Canadian Free Software community taking on Bill C-11, Russell McOrmond, 2012/02/25
- Re: [fsfc-discuss] Canadian Free Software community taking on Bill C-11, Richard Stallman, 2012/02/26
- Re: [fsfc-discuss] Canadian Free Software community taking on Bill C-11, Russell McOrmond, 2012/02/27
Re: [fsfc-discuss] "FSF Canada", Richard Stallman, 2012/02/16
Re: [fsfc-discuss] "FSF Canada", Richard Stallman, 2012/02/16