On 5 Jul 2002, Simo Sorce wrote:
On Thu, 2002-07-04 at 04:12, Rainer Trusch wrote:
Hi,
On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Rui Miguel Seabra wrote:
On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 10:29:18PM +0200, Rainer Trusch wrote:
answer two small questions:
What is freedom?
To be free from the control of anyone to do as it pleases without restricting the freedom of any fellow human being.
I give you another version:
To be free from the control of anyone to do as it pleases
Well anyone's freedom stops where another's one start. There cannot be _total_ freedom in every field, it's just a balance beetween your freedom and another one's.
Yes and no. Freedom is more than that. For example, I'm a proud advocate of the Freedom of the Nature. So you can ask : what is the link with Free Software ?
It's quite easy, the human laws shouldn't restrict that the nature bring impossible to forbid. For example, the immaterial's freedom is a fact of the nature. You can share immaterial data without having exclusion principle which you got with material data. (you can't have the same physical object two times in different place). (Off-topic subject is Quantum Computing, thanks)
The freedom of immaterial data is quite obvious for distributed information (yes, distributed information, privacy is another point like stated in the GNU General Public License with other words). So the four freedoms of Free Software can be easily explain with the nature's freedom. (Freedom #2 and Freedom #3)
What is freedom for?
Freedom is really a basic concept per se, instead today application of freedom may be tricky and not trivial as it should be, because of many interests of those people that want more control than freedom.
Freedom is an ethical issue, this is higher than any laws or restrictive concept. To protect Freedom we have to focus on the long-term vision of Freedom not specific case. For example, when we (ael) talk to politician regarding a specific issue, we talk about the long-term vision and after, only, we talk the incompabilities of the law with this """"vision"""".
Ok, it's a difficult matter...
adulau
Simo.