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We discussed RMS' desire at length and found it had two basic flaws:<BR>
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1) Creating an arbitrary division between software and non-software is no longer possible or realistic in the age of electronic music. Remember that RMS has a software-only perspective on copyright; ours needs to be a culture-and-knowledge perspective.<BR>
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2) Creating an arbitrary division between source code and non-source code is no longer possible, especially in the age of .Net and Java where you can regenerate the original source on the fly from binaries. If you were to require companies to submit source code in a certain language, when they did not WANT to do so, you would get the most obfuscated horror imaginable that would be way worse than a first-stage automated decompile of the binary, but still fulfills the technical demand of being in that certain language and compiling to that exact binary.<BR>
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The only thing RMS' proposal would accomplish is a taxpayer-funded repository of illegible, obfuscated good-for-nothing code and a payroll to administer it.<BR>
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Rick<BR>
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On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 12:20 +0100, Valentin Villenave wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">2008/1/21, Комиссия по подготовке Учредительного Конвента</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"><<A HREF="mailto:piratenpartai@gmail.com">piratenpartai@gmail.com</A>>:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> <A HREF="http://pirateparty.ru/content/view/148/31/">http://pirateparty.ru/content/view/148/31/</A> (Eng)</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> <A HREF="http://pirateparty.ru/content/view/149/31/">http://pirateparty.ru/content/view/149/31/</A> (Rus)</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Wooow! I can't believe you made that! Kudos!</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">This is a very interesting interview. In France, we are somehow</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">divided on the Free Software question. I am a strong FSF supporter,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">but others at the Parti Pirate think I'm just a Free Software</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">ayatollah and that "Open" licenses are not the right answer.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">I hope we'll be able to talk about RMS and about these issues at</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Berlin; IMHO he does have a point when he implies that Pirate Party</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">proposals should not endanger Free Software.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Regards,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Valentin</FONT>
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