"David" dbFSF@pigstick.freeserve.co.uk writes:
o The firm philosophical stance Georg wishes from FSFE members ought to be concerned with high, broad and long aims for humanity, and encompass more than software programs.
It's certainly a worthwhile task to promote the issue of freedom whereever is appropriate, and we should try to do so. But let's remember that the Free Software Foundation's primary interest is to eliminate restrictions on copying, understanding and modifying software. And in particular, the FSF does this by developing the GNU System.
If at some point it is appropriate to widen the goals of the Free Software Foundation, I would be most happy to support this, but that's a discussion that is best taken with RMS and others in the FSF. The FSFE must try to follow the same founding principles as the FSF. Personally, I think that expanding the area that we focus on is premature and that there exists other organisations that are more efficient and more suitable to deal with them at this time.
As I said earlier though, we should definitely support such activities, and the FSF makes a point out of linking and in other ways supporting free music, free books and everything else where the freedom associated with it is similar in philosophy to that of the freedom of software which we advocate.