Re: [OS:N:] Another multiple response (Basic rights warmed up in
James Michael DuPont <[email protected]>
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--- Jim Wildman <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, James Michael DuPont wrote: > > > The next best way to caputre a market and take away all thier > freedoms. > > > > When I talk about the rights of the students, I mean that as well. > When > > you look at the contracts, laws and EULA, you see that they are > > designed on limiting the rights of the users. > > > > Now, why do these rights have to be limited, unless they were there > to > > begin with? The rights to view and edit and change source code are > > there until they are taken away by contract or agreement. > > > > In the pure state, a human is not bound by contract, only by > binding > > themselves to various agreements do these rights become take away. > > All 'rights' involve the removal or restriction of a freedom. Even > the > right to life implies the limitation of someone else's freedom to > kill. > > The restriction can be internal ("I think killing is wrong", or more > likely "I think killing for that reason is wrong") or external ("I > don't > want to go to jail, be stigmatized, be killed by the relatives, > etc"). > > A 'society' or 'culture' is essentially defined by the particular > sets > of tradeoffs between rights and freedoms that the members of that > society have made, and agree to live by. > That is right. I find it strange that we cannot agree upon a set of restrictions that prevents the stealing of your hard work while still supporting and using free software. People should not be precluded from using only free software to take their RHCE or learn from the courseware, at least in my opinon. I am trying to find something that we can all agree upon that will protect all involved parties. mike ===== James Michael DuPont http://introspector.sourceforge.net/ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Subscription and Archive: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/open-source-now-list/ - For K12OS technical help join K12OSN: <https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn>