Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on January 10, 2004 12:55 AM
"(0)The freedom to run the program, for any purpose. (1)The freedom to study how the program works, and adapt it to your needs. (2)The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor. (3)The freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements to the public, so that the whole community benefits. "
All those can be summed up as freedom from powers owners have over users as stated in the why-software-shouldnt-have-owners document on www.gnu.org.
Freedom from the power owners have over people is the core ideology of socialism (and communism). In a communist society (the word communism comes from the word community) private ownership is forbidden. The free software foundation wants to outlaw proprietary software, proprietary software gives owners power over the users.
In a capitalist society freedom is defined as freedom to trade property (physical or intellectual). Property is the core of the ideology.
It's really just different views on what freedom is. People have different perception of it and there are probably as many different ideas of this as there are people on the planet.
Quite a lot of people, however, seems to beleive they have some kind of god-given exclusive right to push their idea of what freedom is down everyone elses throat as well.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on January 10, 2004 12:55 AM(1)The freedom to study how the program works, and adapt it to your needs.
(2)The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor.
(3)The freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements to the public, so that the whole community benefits. "
All those can be summed up as freedom from powers owners have over users as stated in the why-software-shouldnt-have-owners document on www.gnu.org.
Freedom from the power owners have over people is the core ideology of socialism (and communism). In a communist society (the word communism comes from the word community) private ownership is forbidden. The free software foundation wants to outlaw proprietary software, proprietary software gives owners power over the users.
In a capitalist society freedom is defined as freedom to trade property (physical or intellectual). Property is the core of the ideology.
It's really just different views on what freedom is. People have different perception of it and there are probably as many different ideas of this as there are people on the planet.
Quite a lot of people, however, seems to beleive they have some kind of god-given exclusive right to push their idea of what freedom is down everyone elses throat as well.
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