Perhaps, but perhaps not in the manner you intended to express. "Campaigning for freedom" sounds like a high-level political activity (not criticizing, just categorizing), while "empowering people" sounds like a subversive (in a good way) activity that enables the actualization of freedom, i.e. the end goal of allowing entities to create and control their own destinies, that is, their own software. In other words: if I don't like your UI or your implementation of an algorithm, I'll write my own, because I can. (Consider that I routinely work with machines whose users commonly wrote directly to the hardware.) If They cannot constrain my expression, am I not free? -- Ian On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:
Empowering people with knowledge or capacities is a fundamentally different idea from campaigning for freedom.
-- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call _______________________________________________ This email is relayed from members@sigcis.org, the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. The list archives are at http://sigcis.org/pipermail/members/ and you can change your subscription options at http://sigcis.org/mailman/listinfo/members
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