[pp.int.general] Research Survey.

[Maxime Rouquet]

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On 05/08/2012 09:18 AM, Andrew Norton wrote:
> Personally, I don't care if it's 'free' not 'nonfree' so long as it
> enabled me to do the work that needs doing. We could spend time 
> making sure we only use 'free software', or we could spend time
> working on our core issues. I think out time is better spent on the
> latter.

This is short-term thinking. I believe we pirates defend the
independence of the citizens towards others' will.

Using a program that is not free, a web service or anything else that
is forcing you to trust blindly the people behind it is wrong ; unless
these people are you or somebody you trust and can change if you want.

By choosing a web service now, you will sure save a few minutes. But
by writing (or make someone write for you) an HTML form, you would
make sure that, whatever the companies who run these web services
become (or are already), your will keep forever the control of your
forms and data collected, and the ability to make new ones the way you
want them.

By publishing the HTML text under a free software licence, you would
also save this little work of yours for all the others.

This is king of a prisoner's dilemma. Everyone could get out free by
sharing a bit with the others, instead of thinking only immediate
effectiveness, short-term and self-interest.
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