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On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 08:46:44 +0000 "Jonathan Roberts" <jonathan.roberts.uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > You continue to confuse "constricted by" and "under." I give up. > > > I guess what Ben was trying to say is he dislikes copyright licenses, > perhaps he doesn't dislike "copyleft" licenses - i.e. the GPL. > > Nobodies mentioned patents in all of this? Surely they're also a big > issue with regard to free software? I did, much earlier in the thread: > The purpose of free software, to me, is to eliminate proprietary > software, digital rights management, software patents and all other > methods of restriction of the inalienable freedom to modify and > distribute free software. > > That is an important distinction - I am not against Microsoft, I am > implacably opposed to proprietary software, software patents and > oxymorons like IP, DRM etc. As long as Microsoft propose and > perpetuate these methods, I am opposed to them too but with the > constant hope that they will see sense. One day . . -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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