Em Segunda 12 Janeiro 2004 22:44, Alfred M. Szmidt escreveu:
And it angers and sadness me to see people to give up their freedoms so lightly. You have always the choice of developing your own version of some non-free program, and you have the choice to start a band. Using non-free software is never justifiable; be it its price or whatever. Would you also break the license of the GPL for example? Because there is no difference between unauthorized copying of non-free software and free software. It is still a breach of the license.
Who cares to the license? I'll do what I think is "right". If GPL stops me from doing what I believe, that is to free knowledge, I'll certainly break it. My compromise is with what I believe, not with a piece of paper.
The whole argument that non-free software costs to much is totally bogus, because free software can cost as much, or even more. Just because it is Free Software does not imply that it is gratis software. The argument about "educating" people, is also bogus since non-free software doesn't help in that regard--you can't study the code, or muck around with it.
I think you don't get the point. The whole discussion is that "free" and "non-free" should be more acessible to the people.
[]s, gandhi