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Being Free is Hard to Do

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the money-where-your-mouth-is dept.

ValourX writes "What is more important to you -- the four freedoms of Free Software, or the ability to maximize the value of your computer? It's a question that comes up on Slashdot often, but rarely is it so well argued as it is in this NewsForge article. How important are the FSF's four freedoms to you? What are you willing to sacrifice for those freedoms?" NewsForge and Slashdot are both part of OSTG.

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  1. WOW. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    I think it's dead, really. All Slashdot is doing now is generating pagehits :P

  2. Re:FTA? Same to you, pal by eno2001 · · Score: 1, Funny

    They have koalas in buggered arses? ;)

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    -"...bad old ideas look confusingly fresh when they are packaged as technology" - Jaron Lanier (Digital Maoism on Edge.o
  3. Re:Freedom 0? by godIsaDJ · · Score: 2, Funny
    The freedom to study how the program works, and adapt it to your needs (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.

    Naahh, if you are worth your salt you don't need the source code, hell that's for kids!! True hackers only do assembler :)

  4. Answer: Politicans and goats. by eddy · · Score: 2, Funny

    Question: What are you willing to sacrifice for those freedoms?

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    Belief is the currency of delusion.
  5. Re:Four freedoms vs Max use? by hdparm · · Score: 2, Funny

    You're not supposed to use words postgresql, mysql and Oracle in a single comment on Slashdot unless you were planning to stay around for a long, long time.

  6. Re:Remember what started it all by isometrick · · Score: 2, Funny

    Big trees from little acorns grow. Powerful you have become, the dark side I sense in you.

  7. Except that they don't. by arafel · · Score: 2, Funny

    So you can find it whatever you want, but since they don't do it, you're kind of starting from the wrong place. ;-)

    (As someone else has said, APIs do change - but they change for reasons other than "let's break all the binary drivers".)