Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 21:36:05 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>, Gregory Sutter <gsutter@zer0.org> Cc: Arun Sharma <adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The Ethics of Free Software Message-ID: <4.3.1.2.20000522213325.0446bc00@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20000523085510.A5994@physics.iisc.ernet.in> References: <20000522170335.B94994@azazel.zer0.org> <20000521131809.A6546@sharmas.dhs.org> <20000522170335.B94994@azazel.zer0.org>
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At 09:25 PM 5/22/2000, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: >The original article glosses over what I think is the real point >behind free software, and the rebuttal also does not tackle this point >as firmly as it could: that is, software is a tool, not just a work of >art, and therefore you should have the freedom to tinker with it just >as you can tinker with your music system or your car. Bob Young's >comparison of closed-source software with "a car whose hood is welded >shut" is excellent. No, it's not. Creative works are very different from physical objects. And looking under the hood of a car doesn't give you the ability to create unlimited numbers of identical cars, thereby depriving the automobile manufacturer of any future reward from his work. --Brett Glass To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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