What's the difference?

What's the difference?

I have seen him say (in articles) that code needs to be Free, but he does not feel the same way for "art" and there are some who think he does not go far enough.

Yes, but he does distinguish "code on server" and "code on client". And this is Just Wrong(tm). JavaScript code on web page is not some separate program. It's part of server program. Heck: with things like GWT you can move code between server and client with few mouse clicks in IDE! Yet somehow sites like LWN (where server code is closed and client code is simple markup) are OK, while complex sites like Google Docs are not? Where is the logic?

The article glosses over the issue (The client and server sides raise different ethical issues, even if they are so closely integrated that they arguably form parts of a single program. This article addresses only the issue of the client-side software. We are addressing the server issue separately.) and this makes it impossible to discuss seriously.