If a license prevents you from sharing with your neighbour, you need to decide whether it is better to comply with the license, or be a good person.
I'd say Tridge simply believed that YOUR freedom, and the freedom of everyone else was more important than the terms of the license which forbid reverse engineering.
(Also, typing 'help' on a telnet session doesn't seem much like reverse engineering to me.)
Maybe it's time for that to change. Otherwise, we get mistakes like this. Linus Torvalds wanting a Minix clone has nothing to do with the commands in GNU. You can rant and rave all you want, but that doesn't make me wrong.
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Choice is a good thing, but when a choice is used to control users and take away freedoms, I don't think people should have the freedom to impose a non-freedom on others, it doesn't make sense.
Nobody can tell you that you can or can't install a proprietary driver on your GNU/Linux system. If you wish to sacrifice your freedom to do that, nobody can prevent that, however it should not be the job of distributions to subjugate and sacrifice the freedoms of users.
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If a license prevents you from sharing with your neighbour, you need to decide whether it is better to comply with the license, or be a good person.
I'd say Tridge simply believed that YOUR freedom, and the freedom of everyone else was more important than the terms of the license which forbid reverse engineering.
(Also, typing 'help' on a telnet session doesn't seem much like reverse engineering to me.)
Maybe it's time for that to change. Otherwise, we get mistakes like this. Linus Torvalds wanting a Minix clone has nothing to do with the commands in GNU. You can rant and rave all you want, but that doesn't make me wrong.
Don't confuse Linux, which is a kernel, with GNU, which is an operating system and has nothing to do with Minix.
let me know when you get the Sega/Mega CD working with it.
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What were you expecting since yesterday?
How is this a good idea? Accepting DRM is a very bad idea.
If it happens, it would be DRM, binary and non-free - that's not useful, and seeks only to harm the free software community.
They'll never make a GNU/Linux version of the iPlayer. Never ever ever.
At best, someone might be able to get their proprietary player running under Wine.
We should tell the BBC this is unacceptable - http://www.bbc.co.uk/feedback/
And that they're not called the BCC ;)
Now, name one DVD you have watched 50 times
Dunston Checks In.
Um, yeah... except X.org is free software, heck.. it's not GNU software, but even then it was adopted for the GNU Operating System in 1984.
The FSF and the SFLC are about Free Software, not Open Source. Come on! It's in the name! :)
How come? What's the deal with rt2500 and Ubuntu?
Bytemark - UK based, decent service, VMs and Dedicated hosts... really well supported. Been using them for two years.
If you haven't already, please consider joining the Rhythmbox group on Last.fm
ESR is nothing more than a troll. Everyone should see this as the reason they needed to ignore him forever more.
Your slashdot nick is breaking the trademark. Remove your account immediately.
So, when Cuba supported Windows, nobody bought Windows? I forgot about the Windows slump of 1983-2007, sorry.
American corporation wants to be associated with anything that Fidel Castro uses or supports
So, you're saying if Cuba supports something, it makes it harder to sell the same idea to Capitilists?
Except Debian has binary blobs by default too :)
gNewSense is a good example of a free GNU/Linux distro.
And binary blobs? They're enabled by default.
Choice is a good thing, but when a choice is used to control users and take away freedoms, I don't think people should have the freedom to impose a non-freedom on others, it doesn't make sense.
How does installing a binary driver on my system take away your freedom?
You no longer have the four freedoms on the software you run on your machine.
You could be using intel integrated graphics
Yes, you could. That would be a good thing.
Can you not use the free `nv' driver?
Nobody can tell you that you can or can't install a proprietary driver on your GNU/Linux system. If you wish to sacrifice your freedom to do that, nobody can prevent that, however it should not be the job of distributions to subjugate and sacrifice the freedoms of users.