Freedom (Re: Most offensive thing I've seen all day)

[Michael V. De Palatis]

On 8/4/06, George Farris <farrisg at cc.mala.bc.ca> wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-04-08 at 00:59 +0100, Sean Hammond wrote:
> > On 8/4/06, Jan Moren <jan.moren at lucs.lu.se> wrote:
> > > > Only that it wouldn't be so easy if it was Jihadbuntu, with a nice pic
> > > > of the twin towers colapsing as the default wallpaper. Would it?
> > >
> > >
> > > Quite easy - they'd be allowed to do that just like these people are
> > > allowed this. You may not like it personally, but that is beside the
> > > point. Ubuntu (and GPL and other free licenses) do not put a restriction
> > > on who can use it beyond following the license terms. Left-wing or
> > > right-wing; religious or rational; army or peace organization; chemical
> > > industry or Greenpeace; Israel or Palestine; Superman or Lex Luthor -
> > > all are allowed to use it freely if they follow the terms.
> >
> > You probably aren't allowed to use it to do, or promote, something
> > illegal though. Like blowing things up.
>
> You mean kind of like the US is doing.....

Not only is this entire thread completely off topic, but it has
descended into an all out flamewar. Please, continue this discussion
elsewhere.

-- 
Mike