Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 20 Oct 2002 04:33:23 -0400 | From | Mark Mielke <> | Subject | Re: Bitkeeper outrage, old and new |
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On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 06:45:37PM -0400, Richard Stallman wrote: > Somebody that Richard did not consider worth properly quoting wrote: > > Freedom includes > > for me that I can use any software that I have legally licensed (or > > written myself) without people complaining about it publically. > You are asking for the power to silence criticism. That is not > freedom, that is a power.
He is asking for the freedom to not be JUDGED based on the toolset that he prefers to use.
An open minded individual would not confuse this with power.
mark
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