Skype telephone giveaway- but not for Linux users

[manchicken]

On Thursday 14 June 2007 02:49:16 Dotan Cohen wrote:
> 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
>
> http://lyricslist.com/
> http://what-is-what.com/

You're just grabbing two-fisted at an argument you think you can throw at me.  
You're arguing things the way they are.  I'm arguing things the way they 
should be.  Two different worlds my friend.  I'm not okay with things the way 
they are now.  It is only a series of flawwed business models supported by 
corrupt legislation.  Nothing more.  These businesses need to find ways of 
distributing media without restricting people.  My freedom and my control 
over my home and what is in it is more important than their ability to make 
money.

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