>>people is already switching on these basis
>
>And people are switching back as well, for lack of support. Raising
>expectations is a dangerous thing, and can have a nasty boomerang effect.
The numbers I know shows an important gnu/linux growing, off course always
will be people going backwards.
I know a lot of propietary software with worst support than free software,
but there is an important opportunity in supporting people to migrate.
Raising expectations ... I love to raise expectations.
>These are interesting forecasts, but I believe them wrong.
who knows :-)
>But a contract supercedes a law since it is an agreement between two
>or more parties.
Never. At least in argentina. You can not change a public law by a private
agreement. You can not sell yourself for example.
>Accountability is key. One cannot be free without paying the price of
>responsibility; one cannot gain independence otherwise.
You talk about freedom as a comercial product. If you must pay a price, you
are not free.
>I never spoke of politics,
accountability, responsability??? you are not speaking about politics?
>but I believe you are falling into the folly of politics and democracy
>being one and the same.
I dont think so
>Verily, democracy was established to minimize and counter politics. Of
>course, so was Communism.
minimize? counter? I dont understand your point.
democracy is a way to structure politics, could be others, war as example,
Von clausewitz ... says I think.
>Most people don't understand the roots of the ideologies. However,
>politics is not a form of government - it's what government was supposed
>to have been created to avoid.
???
ideology, politics, democracy, governments all diferent, all related
>What is a 'better world'? Ask 10 people, you will get 10 different
>answers. Most of them won't include software.
sure!
but, probably they will include freedom, and in a digitized society there
will be no freedom with propietary software, with DMCA, with soft patentes,
with palladium - DRM, etc.
a lot of people dont know this, but it is not lesser true because of that.
Its our fault, off course. Our work is to let people know.
>Agreeing with your enemy doesn't make you right.
off course not, only a signal.
>They are two things, but they are not the same. Consider fruit: both an
>apple and orange are fruit, but one does not eat them interchangeably.
In your owns words, people want their jobs done, both kinds of soft could
do that.
>>>Free Software means rights, it means responsibilities...
I am not sure about responsibilities. I am thinking about that, but I am
not convinced yet. I have a lot of rights that do not depend on my actions.
Human rights for example.
>their individual software does not impinge on my freedom.
yes, their software could do a lot of nasty things, could spy on you, only
for example.
>Everyone cares about politics, nobody cares about government.
>Politics is about maintaining castes.
For me politics has a broad meaning.
>But if you get large groups of individuals discussing things, common
>ground will appear and from there advances will be made. This is where
>Free Software wins.
off course, that is exactly one of our jobs.
Diego Saravia
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