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GNU/Linux World Domination for the Wrong Reasons (Datamation)GNU/Linux World Domination for the Wrong Reasons (Datamation)Posted Mar 11, 2008 18:48 UTC (Tue) by martinfick (subscriber, #4455)In reply to: GNU/Linux World Domination for the Wrong Reasons (Datamation) by k3ninho Parent article: GNU/Linux World Domination for the Wrong Reasons (Datamation) Are computer users any less free if they don't know that they're free? Absolutely!!! The whole point of computer freedom is that you have the right to do certain things: get access to source, modify such code, distribute binaries... Without the knowledge that you may legally do these things you effectively have no extra freedoms over proprietary software!
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GNU/Linux World Domination for the Wrong Reasons (Datamation) Posted Mar 12, 2008 7:52 UTC (Wed) by janpla (guest, #11093) [Link] I disagree. It is very common in these modern times to talk about freedom as if it was an absolute, but it isn't. When you say "I'm free" or "It's free", one necessarily has to ask "From what?".
GNU/Linux World Domination for the Wrong Reasons (Datamation) Posted Mar 12, 2008 15:57 UTC (Wed) by martinfick (subscriber, #4455) [Link] Well, fortunately, some people have thought about these issues long and hard, and they have even written very nice logical books on the subject trying to clarify what many would like you to stay confused about (if you can't describe liberty well, you can't defend it well). Might I suggest: http://www.mises.org/rothbard/ethics/ethics.asp
Freedom Posted Mar 21, 2008 11:21 UTC (Fri) by anton (guest, #25547) [Link] When you say "I'm free" or "It's free", one necessarily has to ask "From what?"Only in Newspeak. From the appendix of Nineteen Eighty-Four: To give a single example, the word free still existed in Newspeak, but could only be used in such statements as "The dog is free from lice" or "This field is free from weeds." It could not be used in its old sense of "politically free" or "intellectually free," since political and intellectual freedom no longer existed even as concepts, and were therefore of necessity nameless.
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