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FSF Starts Anti-ACTA Campaign
judgecorp writes "Free Software Foundation president Richard Stallman has said in a blog post that the ACTA file-sharing proposals punish users unfairly. He wrote, 'Any time there is a proposal to change things for the worse, the obvious way to oppose it is to campaign for the status quo. To campaign for the status quo suggests the approach of singing its praises; thus, praising WIPO is a natural way to highlight how ACTA is a step for the worse. However, where there have been previous changes for the worse, lauding the status quo tends to legitimize them. The past 20 years have seen global waves of harmful changes in copyright law — some promoted by WIPO. To confront a further assault by presenting the status quo as ideal means we stop fighting to reverse them. It means that our adversaries need only propose a further affront to our rights to gain our acceptance of their last affront. Instead of making the status quo our ideal, we should demand positive changes to recover freedoms already lost.' The FSF has launched a petition against the ACTA proposals."
Flamebait. That was pretty quick. Perhaps, next time, I should sugar-coat it a bit, huh? :-/
You know, there is a difference between trolling and pointing out the flaws in your reasoning. Just saying.
Ummmmm... right...
I expect EULAs to attempt to obfuscate and conceal their true intentions in verbage.
It is like being approached by a thug in a dark alley, I expect to start looking for ways out of the situation.
I do not expect a proponent of software development who publishes a great amount of work that is aimed at providing developers with the legal means to BOTH share and protect their work to place these tools in wording that is unreadable.
It is like approaching the Salvation Army dude ringing a bell and then getting shanghaid
So, IF RMS really wants to 'reach out' to the population of software developers, then I would suggest that HE make the material more readily digested
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