From: Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org>
To: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: Promise SATA driver GPL'd
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 17:21:29 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10307231719550.14556-100000@master.linux-ide.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <MDEHLPKNGKAHNMBLJOLKMEHPEJAA.davids@webmaster.com>
David,
I needed the laugh, thanks.
Your one point about free becoming unfree is on task.
You should have been more brief, but I enjoyed it.
Andre Hedrick
LAD Storage Consulting Group
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, David Schwartz wrote:
>
> > Freedom comes from keeping all of it free.
>
> All code released publically is free. The more code you release, the more
> freedom.
>
> You seem to think that how much freedom you have is based upon what
> percentage of code is free as opposed to how much free code there is. Nobody
> can reduce the amount of free code, so nobody can reduce your freedom.
>
> No matter how much code I write for which I don't give you the source, the
> amount of code for which you do have the source is not reduced. The more
> free code there is, the freer you are. The only thing that threatens your
> freedom is if someone makes free code unfree. How do they do that?
>
> If I add something and don't make it free, that doesn't reduce your
> freedom. It only fails to increase it.
>
> > Litigation is a means to prevent the blanket theift of today.
> > You cleary do not get it.
>
> The only thing a person can steal is what they themselves added. So no
> theft takes any of your freedom away. You are still free, no matter how many
> things that I produce I fail to give you.
>
> > How do you plan to stop people from making changes to the kernel,
> > packaging a binary kernel and selling it?
>
> Would I be any better off if they didn't make the changes in the first
> place? How can someone not giving me access to something they produced make
> me any less free than if those things didn't exist at all?
>
> Nobody can take your freedom away just by denying you something that they
> produced.
>
> DS
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-24 0:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-23 5:12 Promise SATA driver GPL'd Adam J. Richter
2003-07-23 5:28 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-23 9:08 ` Adrian Bunk
2003-07-23 10:12 ` Matthias Andree
2003-07-23 10:21 ` Wichert Akkerman
2003-07-23 11:47 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-23 11:54 ` Wichert Akkerman
2003-07-23 22:22 ` On "any later version" in GPL [Was: Re: Promise SATA driver GPL'd] Horst von Brand
2003-07-23 10:37 ` Promise SATA driver GPL'd Adrian Bunk
2003-07-23 10:29 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-23 10:51 ` Adrian Bunk
2003-07-23 11:43 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-23 12:17 ` Adrian Bunk
2003-07-23 12:32 ` Martin Diehl
2003-07-23 12:57 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-23 19:08 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-23 19:19 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-23 19:33 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-23 19:46 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-23 20:59 ` Roman Zippel
2003-07-23 22:22 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-23 22:40 ` Roman Zippel
2003-07-23 22:35 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-23 23:02 ` Roman Zippel
2003-07-23 23:08 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-23 23:33 ` Roman Zippel
2003-07-23 23:45 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-24 0:14 ` dacin
2003-07-24 0:23 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-24 0:21 ` David Schwartz
2003-07-24 0:21 ` Andre Hedrick [this message]
2003-07-24 13:23 ` Jesse Pollard
2003-07-24 14:01 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-07-24 18:37 ` David Schwartz
2003-07-23 22:32 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-23 22:46 ` Larry McVoy
2003-07-23 23:13 ` Roman Zippel
2003-07-23 10:40 ` Adam Sampson
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-07-22 18:45 Erik Andersen
2003-07-22 18:54 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-07-22 19:07 ` Erik Andersen
2003-07-22 19:39 ` Samuel Flory
2003-07-22 20:56 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-07-22 21:39 ` Erik Andersen
2003-07-22 23:25 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-27 3:01 ` Nick Urbanik
2003-08-27 3:14 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-27 9:00 ` Matthias Andree
2003-08-27 11:51 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-07-22 20:57 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-07-23 13:20 ` Mark Watts
2003-07-23 1:59 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-23 2:38 ` Shawn
2003-07-23 10:32 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-23 18:58 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-24 11:22 ` Matthias Andree
2003-08-13 13:34 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-08-13 14:24 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-15 10:17 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-25 3:44 ` Milan Roubal
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