Re: Fedora Desktop future- RedHat moves


On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 13:45 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
Why should I be interested in a distribution that makes it
difficult
for me to make my own choices about whether a license is acceptable
or
not? I don't have a problem with downloading my own copy of any
particular code from any particular place under any conditions that I
find acceptable.
But that is the problem. The folks with proprietary want to limit your
use to only the systems they have chosen to support, thus you can end up
with instruments or software that you have purchased that will not run
when the OS changes. Furthermore their licenses forbid you from reverse
engineering the code to figure out how to make it work some where else,
and the owner of the proprietary OS won't let you do any reverse
engineering legally to figure out how to interface to the software or
hardware he/she/it chooses to no longer support. Thus you are obsoleted
with no legal recourse. Those lovely sites where you download such
utilities are often legally not clean to use either, depending upon the
laws that the various entities have seen fit to pass. Finally your own
documents, code and other encoded data may be unaccessable to you
either, because the formatting, encoding, encryption or compression may
be proprietary and non disclosed with the attendant no reverse
engineering clauses, leaving you without access even to your own
material.

That is why these licenses, and the subject of libre or free software is
important.

Regards,
Les H

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