On 04.06.2018 11:41, Louigi Verona wrote:
Hey Thorsten!
Thank you for your comment. I have not only read Stallman, I have
studied his writings very closely and wrote a large work on his
philosophy which can be found here:
https://louigiverona.com/?page=projects&s=writings&t=philosophy&a=philosophy_freedoms
That whole thing seems to depend on a reversal. It's not 4 Freedoms
because non-free software is claimed to be unjust, but non-free software
is said to be unjust because it denies users the 4 Freedoms. Then you
continue to play down all of the associated issues. You should really
try the "less is more" approach, some time.
"The problem starts once you do anything that encourages another person
to use non-free software, because in doing so, they will give up the 4
freedoms."
This is not a convincing argument, because you first need to prove that
these 4 freedoms matter. What problems are they solving?
How about the other way? What problems does _not_ having the 4 freedoms
create?
Optional:
- You may not be allowed to run the program as you wish, for any
purpose, i.e., an EULA might be in place.
Always:
- You cannot study and learn from the code.
- You cannot do even the simplest modification to adapt the program to
you needs/wishes (aside from reverse engineering methods).
- You may not just hand copies to others, or point them to freely
available sources to help them out / speed up collaboration.
- You may not join forces with the authors, e.g. by providing patches
(aside from getting hired ...)
- You cannot modify the software for others.
- You cannot fork the project.
- You cannot pick up the project after the original author went away or
perished.
- You will have a hard time working with data with no maintained,
accessible program to read it left around.
Now some may say unnecessarily burdening users with those problems is
wrong (/unjust/unethical/immoral).
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