On 26 May 2001 16:58:31 +0200, loic@gnu.org wrote:
- Software should be free because it can enforce controls on people.
Is this what you meant or is there a typo ?
This is the main point of the document at http://FreeDevelopers.net/press/whydecl/, that software should be free because it's more like law than literature because it can enforce what and how people can do things. It's one of the documents Ton refered me too.
My this is just a question of belief, but I don't believe that a single entity (FSMC) can represent either the diversity or the power of free software. I understand marketing has giving to people what they want or
I think the idea is that this company is much more like a nation (hence the declaration) than a company. In that sense it will represent the diversity of Free Software in the same way as France represents the diversity of the French culture.
My problem is that the company, as described now, goes against the 4 freedoms. It assumes that the company acts as the only distribution channel. I don't believe this can happen, even looking at it as a nation.
-- Joao Miguel Neves