Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 19:33:21 -0600 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Stallman stalls again Message-ID: <15024.7137.97293.890055@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010314182353.00ba5880@localhost> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010314170008.00d86960@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010314132512.04acb100@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010313211657.00e294a0@localhost> <3AADC096.DE27817@outpost.co.nz> <4.3.2.7.2.20010311235053.00e26140@localhost> <20010305205030.G80474@lpt.ens.fr> <4.3.2.7.2.20010305125259.00cfdae0@localhost> <20010305142108.A17269@marx.marvic.chum> <4.3.2.7.2.20010306011342.045fb360@localhost> <20010306081025.A22143@marx.marvic.chum> <4.3.2.7.2.20010306092612.00b79f00@localhost> <20010306174618.N32515@lpt.ens.fr> <4.3.2.7.2.20010311230800.00e19bd0@localhost> <15020.28993.192354.986367@guru.mired.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20010312223234.0445f3a0@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010314182353.00ba5880@localhost>
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Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> types: > At 06:16 PM 3/14/2001, Mike Meyer wrote: > >Claiming that those two quotes imply that Stallman advocates stealing > >is akin to claiming that publishers advocate capital punishment for > >software piracy because piracy is - or at least used to be - a capital > >crime. > > Stallman does advocate stealing. (The most blatant case I've > seen was during a session at the Fall 1999 LinuxWorld in San > Jose). In his propaganda, he calls it "sharing," of course. He encourages other people to share. He provides a license they can use to share their software. If this is advocating theft, so is what publishers do. Only the call it "selling". <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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