On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Yves Degoyon wrote:
i never made a pledge to american law
neither did I. But note that most countries agreed to the Berne Convention: http://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/ip/berne/trtdocs_wo001.html
there are laws that are per-country and so might not apply where you are, but the stable part of the copyright law is almost worldwide.
and the FSF... and i don't really mind what they think.
There's Free Software Foundation Europe: http://fsfeurope.org/
There's Free Software Foundation Latin America: http://www.fsfla.org/
i think free software should be more than a commodity where you are not obliged to pay any licence, but that it should also be seen as a brick to build another world,
The FSF wants to build another world as well, and that's why they criticise the open-source movement for not being morally ambitious enough. It's just not the same world as you, apparently...
and be prohibited to be used in some contexts.
What I want you to understand is that this prohibition causes more harm than it cures.
( when i see that people are proud in some linux magazine that free software has ben used to operate a tank, i just think we don't share lots of values
That's because you are not in a country under attack. If you had someone sending guided missiles up your ass, you'd want your country's army to do something about it, and it's not a matter of whether the antimissile defense is Linux-powered or not. Anyway if you *needed* an antimissile or a tank, you'd rather want it Linux-powered than Windows-powered any day for sure.
and i want to run from 'mainstream' free software, what it becomes now, another system ...
You see, it's normal to have systems sometimes. When there's an evil system somewhere, you shouldn't be worried about the fact that it's a system as much as the fact that it's evil, because, if you do, then the evil system has won, while all the potential good replacements lose.
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