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Reasoning backwardsReasoning backwardsPosted Dec 10, 2012 19:33 UTC (Mon) by jimparis (subscriber, #38647)In reply to: Reasoning backwards by man_ls Parent article: Stallman: Ubuntu Spyware: What to Do?
> The problems caused by the lack of this particular freedom (the "freedom to run modified versions", we might call it, which Stallman took for granted) are far reaching.
I don't think that was taken for granted. It seems reasonably well covered by "The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish (freedom 1)". It can only do your computing if you're able to run it.
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Reasoning backwards Posted Dec 11, 2012 9:32 UTC (Tue) by dgm (subscriber, #49227) [Link]
The freedom to modify a copy of your phone's software is clearly insufficient, you also need to be able to run your modified version on the phone. You can argue that this is not about software but hardware freedom, and I would agree, but it doesn't make it any less important.
Reasoning backwards Posted Dec 11, 2012 14:51 UTC (Tue) by jimparis (subscriber, #38647) [Link]
I completely agree; I just don't think Stallman took running it for granted or that running it wasn't covered by the "four freedoms".
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