<div dir="ltr"><div>David,</div><div><br></div><div>"<span class="gmail-im"></span>I don't see that you have a more convincing basis for your own decry of<br>
abstracting a moral position into the definition of software freedoms."</div><div><br></div><div>Not entirely sure I understand what you're saying here, but I have written a 70 page basis for disagreeing with Stallman.</div><div><br></div><div>I know it is an investment, especially if you feel strongly about the issue. But at the very least you can appreciate that I tried to offer a convincing basis.</div><div><br></div><div>You also say that the principles have either to be agreed with or not and that they cannot be proven. I completely disagree with that. I don't view ethics as dogma. I am a proponent of ethics derived from reason. This could be the biggest disagreement, and, in fact, a key disagreement we might have.<br></div><div><br></div><div>As for the rest of the things that you've written, like that I don't want to improve the world and so on, you have made it very clear throughout this discussion that you don't want to treat me in a charitable way and instead just strawman most if not all I write. So, excuse me if I will not reply to your comments from now on. I am not offended or anything, I just don't see our conversations exploring interesting directions.<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 1:50 PM, Thorsten Wilms <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:self@thorstenwilms.com" target="_blank">self@thorstenwilms.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 04.06.2018 11:41, Louigi Verona wrote:<br>
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Hey Thorsten!<br>
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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:<br>
<a href="https://louigiverona.com/?page=projects&s=writings&t=philosophy&a=philosophy_freedoms" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://louigiverona.com/?page<wbr>=projects&s=writings&t=philoso<wbr>phy&a=philosophy_freedoms</a><br>
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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.<span class=""><br>
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"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."<br>
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This is not a convincing argument, because you first need to prove that these 4 freedoms matter. What problems are they solving?<br>
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How about the other way? What problems does _not_ having the 4 freedoms create?<br>
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Optional:<br>
- You may not be allowed to run the program as you wish, for any purpose, i.e., an EULA might be in place.<br>
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Always:<br>
- You cannot study and learn from the code.<br>
- You cannot do even the simplest modification to adapt the program to you needs/wishes (aside from reverse engineering methods).<br>
- You may not just hand copies to others, or point them to freely available sources to help them out / speed up collaboration.<br>
- You may not join forces with the authors, e.g. by providing patches (aside from getting hired ...)<br>
- You cannot modify the software for others.<br>
- You cannot fork the project.<br>
- You cannot pick up the project after the original author went away or perished.<br>
- You will have a hard time working with data with no maintained, accessible program to read it left around.<br>
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Now some may say unnecessarily burdening users with those problems is wrong (/unjust/unethical/immoral).<br>
</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Louigi Verona<br><a href="https://www.patreon.com/droning" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/droning</a><br><a href="https://louigiverona.com/" target="_blank">https://louigiverona.com/</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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