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[Gnu-arch-users] OT: Slavery???
From: |
Parker, Ron |
Subject: |
[Gnu-arch-users] OT: Slavery??? |
Date: |
Thu, 6 Nov 2003 10:15:25 -0600 |
> From: Stephen J. Turnbull [mailto:address@hidden
> >>>>> "Tom" == Tom Lord <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden>
>
> > Ie, that people have a lot of hostility toward BK and Larry
> > McVoy.
>
>
> The spirit of the Bitkeeper license is the spirit of the
> whip hand. It is the spirit that says, "You have no right
> to use Bitkeeper, only temporary privileges that we can
> revoke. Be grateful that we allow you to use Bitkeeper. Be
> grateful, and don't do anything we dislike, or we may
> revoke those privileges." It is the spirit of proprietary
> software. Every non-free license is designed to control
> the users more or less. Outrage at this spirit is the
> reason for the free software movement. (By contrast, the
> open source movement prefers to play down this same
> outrage.)
>
> --Richard M. Stallman
>
> Tom> Reasonably,
>
> Anyone who deliberately equates intellectual property with slavery has
> abandoned reason and embraced demagogery. A slave cannot say "no" to
> his owner, no, not even at the cost of substantial inconvenience in
> contributing to Linux. He says "no" to his owner at his life's peril.
I usually follow your logic, but I must have missed the antecedent slavery
reference with respect to "intellectual property". The closest reference I
was able to find was an RMS interview at
http://www.batasayti.freeservers.com/catalog.html, wherein he likens certain
jobs in "enterprise zones" to slavery. A statement which would certainly be
true of many factory jobs in China and other countries with a non-Western
perspective on human rights. I realize this is not a popular statement,
although true. Stallman's comment came up as part of an answer to a
question about the Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights
(TRIPS) Agreement, but had nothing to do directly with IP.
Could please fill in my mental gaps in your argument?
- [Gnu-arch-users] OT: Slavery???,
Parker, Ron <=
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] OT: Slavery???, Tom Lord, 2003/11/06
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] OT: Slavery???, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2003/11/07
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] OT: Slavery???, Tom Lord, 2003/11/07
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] OT: Slavery???, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2003/11/10
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] OT: Slavery???, Andrew Suffield, 2003/11/10
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] OT: Slavery???, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2003/11/10
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] OT: Slavery???, Andrew Suffield, 2003/11/11
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] OT: Slavery???, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2003/11/12
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] OT: Slavery???, Tom Lord, 2003/11/10
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] OT: Slavery???, Paul Hedderly, 2003/11/10