<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">If a writer</blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
writes a book and locks it in their drawer, we don't arrive at their<br>
door saying "Show us the book, you don't have the rights to restrict our<br>
access to it!"; neither can we force a band to put their releases online<br>
in uncompressed form if they decide to only release them in mp3. In the<br>
same way, if a software developer writes a program and releases only the<br>
compiled version, not the code, it's his right. After all, we require<br>
that there be a right of sharing, not an obligation to do so.<br>
<br>
Best regards,<br>
Boris<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Nobody, not even FSF preaches for an obligation to share anything. They only talk about philosophy and how sharing (including a source code) is ethically better - thus, encouraging us to use "free" licences. Their philosophy is about giving people freedom and empowering them - so I don't think it's a good idea to outright call it "bullshit" like you did before.</div>
<div>In the end of the day, I just fail to see any points where you would fundamentally disagree with FSF philosophy apart from commercial use which is a different story altogether. You say that majority doesn't need "4 software freedoms" - but having them anyway is not going to hurt, right? So there is no problem there really. And to me it also seems like this is the case:</div>
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Maybe. I wouldn't care that much if not for constant wailings by some<br>
people that as a true Pirate I mustn't use Skype, Windows and the pdf<br>
format:)<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>- so presentation of FSF ideas and forcing them (which itself goes against the FSF idea!) on you is the problem, not the philosophy itself.</div></div></div>