On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 10:06 -0500, Bryan J. Smith wrote: > From: Rui Miguel Seabra <rms@xxxxxxxx> > > Chosing slavery is not a freedom, it's waiving freedom. > > This is _exactly_ the type of non-sense I'm talking about! > By the same definition, you can call "working" as "slavery." Under a certain light yes, why should one _have_ to work for a living? I'd rather have time to program Free Software :) > Are you entitled to free drivers that are Open Source? I'm entitled to freedom. Signing my soul away isn't freedom, is accepting subjugation to power. > Either you pay ATI, Matrox, nVidia, etc... for their latest efforts. > Or you wait on the efforts of others in the community, possibly > helping them as well. I don't mind paying, I'm not talking about software obtained for gratis. Hell, I wouldn't mind paying another 100€ for Free Software drivers for the GeForce2MX that I don't have anymore instead of having payed another 150€ for an Ati Radeon 7500 that has Free Software drivers. > You are _not_ entitled to "free money" by not working anymore No. > than you are _not_ entitled to Open Source on every, latest > innovation. Everyone is entitled to freedom. Choosing convenience in spite of freedom is absurd, advocating this kind of choice is immoral. Rui -- + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown + Whatever you do will be insignificant, | but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi + So let's do it...? Please AVOID sending me WORD, EXCEL or POWERPOINT attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
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