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| DATE | 2020-02-25 |
| FROM | ams@gnu.org (Alfred M. Szmidt)
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| SUBJECT | Re: [Hangout - NYLXS] State of the GNUnion 2020
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The text also says:
“
the GNU Project, which creates and distributes a software system that
respects users' freedoms
”
There is a slightly confusion here, and implication that isn't the
intent of the GNU project, I think.
Namley, "distribute a software system that respects user's freedom".
I am not clear what the meaning a "software system" that "respects
user's freedom" means here, how does the _operating_system_ (assuming
it is already free software) respect user rights?
That seems to be a technical goal, say by allowing easier ways to
modify source code, writting "simpler" code that is easily understood
by others, or by reducing obstacles like not needing a root user to do
specific actions.
We might even decide on technical solution that might not at all lead
to that -- say by eskewing ways that make it easier to load
third-party modules in the inevitable situation that it might lead to
propietery software doing something nasty.
While lofty goals worth striding for, I think they are slightly
different than what the GNU project, and the GNU system are about.
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The text also says:
“
the GNU Project, which creates and distributes a software system that
respects users' freedoms
”
There is a slightly confusion here, and implication that isn't the
intent of the GNU project, I think.
Namley, "distribute a software system that respects user's freedom".
I am not clear what the meaning a "software system" that "respects
user's freedom" means here, how does the _operating_system_ (assuming
it is already free software) respect user rights?
That seems to be a technical goal, say by allowing easier ways to
modify source code, writting "simpler" code that is easily understood
by others, or by reducing obstacles like not needing a root user to do
specific actions.
We might even decide on technical solution that might not at all lead
to that -- say by eskewing ways that make it easier to load
third-party modules in the inevitable situation that it might lead to
propietery software doing something nasty.
While lofty goals worth striding for, I think they are slightly
different than what the GNU project, and the GNU system are about.
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