[104091] in Cypherpunks
Re: propose: `cypherpunks license'
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Werner Koch)
Fri Oct 9 04:37:50 1998
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 10:02:20 +0200
From: Werner Koch <wk@isil.d.shuttle.de>
To: rms@gnu.org, rick@campbellcentral.org
Cc: aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk, eay@cryptsoft.com, adam@homeport.org,
cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
In-Reply-To: <199810090025.UAA02286@psilocin.gnu.org>; from Richard Stallman on Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 08:25:25PM -0400
Reply-To: Werner Koch <wk@isil.d.shuttle.de>
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> This might seem like a paradox: you give people "more freedom", but
> they end up with less. How can that be? It has to do with stretching
> the word "freedom" to include the ability to control other people.
> That kind of "freedom" tends to leave other people with less freedom.
"Die Freiheit des Einzelnen endet dort,
wo sie die Freiheit der Anderen einschränkt."
Rosa Luxemburg
The freedom of an individual ends, as it (the freedom)
limits the freedom of the others.
[This was one of the former Eastern Germany liberty movements' slogans
- and not a communists one]
Werner
