[pp.int.general] Why Free Software misses the point

[Boris Turovskiy]

On 13.05.2010 03:56, Alexandre Leray wrote:
> Dear Boris,
>
> in my opinion you miss something important here: Free Software 
> challenges the separation of production vs consumption by encouraging 
> its users to be involved in the process of making. In your paper you 
> say "[...] a program is acquired to be used, not to be modified or 
> distributed." or it is exactly the contrary that makes me interested 
> in FS. While each user might not be able to read or modify the code, 
> there are many ways he/she can be implied: getting involved in a 
> mailing list discussion and in the elaboration of the tools, bug 
> reporting, writing tutorials, etc..
>
> There shouldn't be any "end-users", this is why it is a question of 
> philosophy and not only a question of method. The software industry is 
> turning its "targets" into pure computation through marketing 
> strategies, Free Software is about empowering people by giving them 
> access to the sources (of code, of knowledge...), and more generally 
> by helping defining their own needs and constructing their own tools.
>
> Best,
>
> Alexandre Leray
>
> On 05/12/2010 11:08 PM, Boris Turovskiy wrote:
>> Ahoi,
>> I've finally finished my critical article on Mr.Stallman's and the 
>> FSF's viewpoint. It may be of interest for Pirate Parties which have 
>> difficulties with accepting FSF's philosophical reasoning while not 
>> knowing what their answer should be.
>>
>> http://wiki.piratenpartei.de/Benutzer:TurBor/Stellungsnahmen/Why_Free_Software_misses_the_point 
>>
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Boris
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