openbox9
join:2004-01-26
Alexandria, VA
 ·AT&T Southeast
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Re: go for it
said by TamaraB  :According to the Original Article: ... but it would make Mozilla more money, and isn't that why we're all on this planet? That's Karl's commentary.said by TamaraB :IMHO, this would be Firefox's first step towards corruption, and ruin. As I've mentioned, the code will fork well before this unlikely outcome. Gotta love freely available source code  |
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TamaraB
Question The Current Paradigm
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join:2000-11-08
Brooklyn NYC
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| said by openbox9 : ... Gotta love freely available source code I do! And for literally decades I have been using such for all my computer needs. I currently run Net/FreeBSD on all my computers, from my laptop, to my servers. And, yes 'it's been "free", just like ALL "information" needs to be in a "free" society. But what does "free" mean? Does it ONLY refer to free in a monetary sense? Could not other "costs" make it not free? Costs associated with SPAM, voracious advertising, phishes, hacks.... are all real "costs". Costs associated with the non-free community exclusively! I don't want to see this type of cost, appended to "open source".
It appears to me, that this Firefox "experiment" is a probe into that possibility. Exclusively define "free" (in an open-source sense) as exclusively "monetarily free", and let the market (us) pay in another way. Freedom is then essentially lost.
Bob
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openbox9
join:2004-01-26
Alexandria, VA
·AT&T Southeast
| "Free" software is about freedom, not money, hence the open availability of source code and licenses minimal restrictions regarding what you're allowed to do with the code and/or executables. Once again, if some open source projects choose to take the projects in a direction that you don't like, you have the freedom to take the code and do what you want....at least in accordance with the applicable licenses. |
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