Nice ad hominem attack [LWN.net]

Nice ad hominem attack

Posted Oct 25, 2004 21:23 UTC (Mon) by job (subscriber, #670)
In reply to: Nice ad hominem attack by hppnq
Parent article: How to be a Free Software zealot (NewsForge)

I was merely explaning how trademark law as well as copyright law can
retrict distribution of software, as you said they have nothing to do
with each other.

My original comment was about that I think that a software should have
all parts free (copyright as well as trademark license) to be considered
free as a whole, and gave Firefox as a counterexample.

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Nice ad hominem attack

Posted Oct 25, 2004 21:50 UTC (Mon) by hppnq (subscriber, #14462) [Link]

I am not quite sure what you mean. The GPL is actually quite restrictive, and only through its restrictions does it provide freedom. This is a way of saying that freedom is not as simple as getting rid of as much restrictions as we can.