Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271394AbTGXAOT (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 20:14:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271395AbTGXAOS (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 20:14:18 -0400 Received: from astound-64-85-224-253.ca.astound.net ([64.85.224.253]:13587 "EHLO master.linux-ide.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271394AbTGXAOR (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 20:14:17 -0400 Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 17:21:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Andre Hedrick To: David Schwartz cc: Roman Zippel , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: RE: Promise SATA driver GPL'd In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2258 Lines: 63 David, I needed the laugh, thanks. Your one point about free becoming unfree is on task. You should have been more brief, but I enjoyed it. Andre Hedrick LAD Storage Consulting Group On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, David Schwartz wrote: > > > Freedom comes from keeping all of it free. > > All code released publically is free. The more code you release, the more > freedom. > > You seem to think that how much freedom you have is based upon what > percentage of code is free as opposed to how much free code there is. Nobody > can reduce the amount of free code, so nobody can reduce your freedom. > > No matter how much code I write for which I don't give you the source, the > amount of code for which you do have the source is not reduced. The more > free code there is, the freer you are. The only thing that threatens your > freedom is if someone makes free code unfree. How do they do that? > > If I add something and don't make it free, that doesn't reduce your > freedom. It only fails to increase it. > > > Litigation is a means to prevent the blanket theift of today. > > You cleary do not get it. > > The only thing a person can steal is what they themselves added. So no > theft takes any of your freedom away. You are still free, no matter how many > things that I produce I fail to give you. > > > How do you plan to stop people from making changes to the kernel, > > packaging a binary kernel and selling it? > > Would I be any better off if they didn't make the changes in the first > place? How can someone not giving me access to something they produced make > me any less free than if those things didn't exist at all? > > Nobody can take your freedom away just by denying you something that they > produced. > > DS > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/