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* Sander van Dijk <a.h.vandijk_AT_gmail.com> [2008-05-19 22:38:15 +0200]:
> On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 8:31 PM, Matthias Kirschner <mk_AT_fsfe.org> wrote:
> > There are people (like) you who say modified BSD/MIT licenses are more
> > free, because users/developers have the freedom to make the software
> > unfree. (More a freedom of the individual.)
>
> No no, it's not just "people" saying that, but also every dictionary
> in the world; some examples of dictionary definitions of freedom:
> - "the power to determine action without restraint."
> - "the absence of or release from ties, obligations, etc."
> - "the power to exercise choice and make decisions without constraint
> from within or without; autonomy; self-determination."
- For whom? The individual or the society?
- Which dictionary should I believe? Yours or my political dictionary,
which says a lot more about the term? Is there a master human
dictionary somewhere? For which language?
- "Not just 'people'"? Who writes dictionaries? People, or God?
I had university seminars about the term "freedom", and I do not think
that we should stop thinking because a dictionary says something
(otherwise the dictionary takes away your freedom, doesn't it?). Or do
you look up "life" in your dictionary?
With best wishes,
Matthias/who will try to not stop thinking
Received on Mon May 19 2008 - 23:54:55 UTC
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