[pp.int.general] Pirate Party of Germany chooses proprietary software

Richard Stallman rms at gnu.org
Sun Jul 31 18:19:16 CEST 2011


You're right that free software does not provide a perfect defense
against malicious features.  No perfect defense is known.  It is,
however, a defense.  With proprietary software, the users are totally
defenseless.

I'd rather have some defense than none at all.

-- 
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 free telephony http://directory.fsf.org/category/tel/


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