Louigi Verona <louigi.verona@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Hey Victor! > > Thank you very much for your points, really enjoy the direction of your > questions because I think they allow me to explain my position from very > important angles. > > "The postulate is not about 4 freedoms. It’s about absolute freedom as a > starting point." > > I agree that this is a good starting point. I don't know if Stallman > specifically views the world this way, but I definitely subscribe to this > approach. > > In fact, I am not against Stallman's 4 freedoms at all. My position is not > that these 4 freedoms are unimportant or not good to have. My position is > that giving up these freedoms is completely fine in many situations. That's why they are freedoms and not necessities. > And making people give up these freedoms by virtue of providing a > service is also fine. (will clarify below) It's a one-way street and we are not operating in a vacuum but in the economic reality of competitive markets. One does not take a user's freedoms out of idle spitefulness but because it is economically useful to subvert decisions that are actually the user's to make for your own purposes. Proprietariness is more of a necessary rather than sufficient condition for working evil and disenfranchising users. Teaching people to avoid it drives up the cost of choosing proprietariness so that this choice will increasingly be not made when it is not strictly required for achieving your goal. Teaching people to avoid proprietariness like the plague results in proprietary offers being done mostly when the intent is to _be_ a plague. So teaching people to judge the world in these simplified categories increasingly leads to a world that _can_ be judged in these simplified categories, forcing people to show their colors. Categorizing the world and changing the world are not separate feats. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
