Re: Matt Assay Tells the Truth

[Alexander Terekhov]

Hyman Rosen wrote:
[...]
> Notice that the FSF does nothing at all to prevent software developers
> from doing anything they wish, as long as they do not involve themselves
> with GPLed code. 

http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/12068_3737586_2/Richard-Stallman-Live-and-Unplugged.htm

"Developer: But freedom comes with responsibilities. On one side is
freedom, and on the other is the rights of the people who create the
content– 

Stallman: [getting agitated]: No, no, no, they have no right to
subjugate others! Software developers have no right to take away from
other people the freedoms they are entitled to. And so non-free software
is completely unethical and should not exist at all. That’s why I work
on free software. We will give them the free software so your non-free
software will fail! [big laugh and applause from crowd]. 

Developer: There’s a fundamental fallacy in what you’re saying. I don’t
have anything against you writing free software– 

Stallman: But I have something against your writing non-free software!
[Big audience laugh] You subjugate other people! You want to keep them
divided and helpless."

regards,
alexander.

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