Re: Release plans

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> constitution to protect it, and this usually works.  In maths, there is
> the Axiom of Choice (which is obviously true) and Zorn's Lemma (which is
> patently absurd), yet the two are logically equivalent.  Mathematicians
> are fairly relaxed about absurdities and joke about them over an
> afternoon cup of tea.

No math please, that takes too much time ;-)

> Again, with Eric's example of Xrefactory, any hackers who buy that
> product and incorporate it into their development process thereby lose
> some of their freedom - their process has become tied to a product they
> can't control - to some extent.  This is another one of these
> contradictions about software freedom - by exercising freedom you
> diminish it.

I am not sure that conclusion is valid. You can think

"Ah, why should people have to buy that sort of software? Everyone can't
do that! I will write a free version of this! Hope someone else will
join ..."

Is not that what often happens?