Re: [gentoo-user] 2 to 3??

["Abraham Marín Pérez" <tecnic5@silvanoc.com>]

burlingk@cv63.navy.mil escribió:
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Abraham Marín Pérez [mailto:tecnic5@silvanoc.com] 
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 7:43 PM
>> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
>> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 2 to 3??
>>
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>> burlingk@cv63.navy.mil escribió:
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>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: lunarcrisis@gmail.com [mailto:lunarcrisis@gmail.com] On
>>>> Behalf Of Henk Boom
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 11:08 AM
>>>> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
>>>> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 2 to 3??
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>>> The four freedoms:
>>> Freedom 0: The freedom to run a program for any purpose. 
>>>       
>> Freedom 1: To 
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>>> study the way a program works, and adapt it to your needs. 
>>>       
>> Freedom 2: 
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>>> To redistribute copies so that you can help your neighbors. 
>>>       
>> Freedom 3: 
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>>> Improve the program, and release your improvements to
>>>            the public, so that the whole community benefits.
>>> For freedom 1 and 3 to work, the code must be open.
>>>
>>> Freedom 1 is just as important as the other three. Freedom one is
>>> almost eliminated in GPLv3.  Freedom One is the freedom that was
>>> most whole heartedly expressed in the original manifesto.
>>>
>>> Freedom 3 is the one that GPLv3 is making most important 
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>> now. It does 
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>>> so to the detriment of the other three.
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>> I'm not very into licenses and hence my question may seem evident (or 
>> even stupid) but still... does not Freedom 3 imply Freedom 1? I mean, 
>> how can you improve a program without being able to study it?
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> :)
> The freedoms were listed before any license was written.
> They were the credo that the GNU foundation was founded upon.
> They were still the credo when the name became the Free Software Foundation.
> ^_^
>
> Now the direction of the organization has apparently changed.
> They are more interested in slowing down the competition than
> helping the community.  When they first started, the competition
> was still thought of as a part of the community.  :/
>
> I worry.
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Ok, so good intentions are falling apart and being substituted by 
mercantile minds, but still I can't see how freedom one can be 
threatened while enhancing freedom three, it just seems contradictory to me.

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