[104100] in Cypherpunks
Re: propose: `cypherpunks license' (Re: Wanted: Twofish source code)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Blake Coverett)
Fri Oct 9 12:54:13 1998
From: "Blake Coverett" <blake@wizards.com>
To: <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: <coderpunks@toad.com>, <cypherpunks@cyberpass.net>
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 09:29:07 -0700
Reply-To: "Blake Coverett" <blake@wizards.com>
>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.
>What happened with the X Window System illustrates this unambiguously
>(see http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/x.html).
This assumes that writing and selling proprietary software is 'the ability
to
control other people'. I fail to see why this would be the case. Free
software
is a good thing, but people *choose* to accept the restrictions of non-free
software for any number of reasons. I do not see anyone being coerced into
using it by threat of physical force.
regards,
-Blake (who prefers markets to religions, even with software)
