Skype telephone giveaway- but not for Linux users

[Dotan Cohen]

On 14/06/07, manchicken <manchicken at notsosoft.net> wrote:
> It is not possible to copy a train ride.  It is not possible to modify the
> train ride as you are riding on someone else's property.  Software that is
> installed on my hard drive is my data.  No longer belonging to anybody but
> me.  I'm objecting to those who would say otherwise and try to control what I
> do with my property in the same way that the train company would object to me
> trying to control their equipment.
>
> You're so focused on proving me wrong with some shallow comparison that you're
> not listening to your own argument.  Please find a compatible comparison
> before using another.
>

So, I suppose that when you purchase a book you feel that you can copy
it and distribute the copies as much as you'd like? Or do you not
purchase books, either, because the evil publishers do not let you
copy and redistribute (and possibly modify) the text that _you_ paid
for?

How about music? Do you not purchase CDs, as you cannot copy and
redistribute them? Movies? Newspapers? Magazines?

I suppose that if your only connection to the outside world was
through the Internet (via FOSS software, of course) you could live out
the fantasy of a communist, free-for-all world. But don't expect
everybody to share that opinion.

Note, that personally I prefer and use FOSS software, and I think that
communism, if properly managed, is a superior system to democracy. The
problem with FOSS is that it makes little provisions for revenue. The
problem with past communist governments is that they have been managed
by small, self-interested parties which have fallen prey to the
greedy, power hungry, or paranoid.

Dotan Cohen

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