<div>Yes I do believe people don't respect ROOT MEAN SQUARE?</div> <div> </div> <div>Please explain RMS </div> <div>On 8/25/06, chinaski <<a href="mailto:ulist@gs1.ubuntuforums.org">ulist@gs1.ubuntuforums.org</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"> hello, first of all I'd like to say I respect everybody's opinion, of course I've been reading the whole thread and was at first confused: a -little compromise- for the sake of spreading Ubuntu... good or bad? but then I step into this: > Because Free Software is very often attractive for purely practical > reasons, we have collected tens of millions of users who choose Free > Software purely for practical benefits and do not appreciate the > freedom that we have given them. > > These are the kind of people that *assume that you should choose > between Free Software and proprietary software based on practical > convenience*, which is another way of saying that they value freedom at > zero. How sad. How can freedom ever be safe, when people don't > appreciate it. People have had to fight for freedom, over and over. > > And when people do not value their freedom, they are very likely to > lose it. But that's the fact. Most of our community does not appreciate > freedom. > RMS > <a href="http://tinyurl.com/ngbg9"> http://tinyurl.com/ngbg9</a> > wow! ok, I am not saying that anyone accepting non_free_sofware included in Ubuntu is likely to lose, irrespectful or free software and so on. not at all. I believe the fredoom of having an opinion and express stays before "freedom 0" ;) but personally I totally agree with RMS: 100% or nothing. thank you for your attention, and pls excuse me if I sound arrogant or out of place posting here pls also excuse me for my poor english :) -- chinaski -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users </a> </blockquote></div> -- Engineering is the art of making what you want from things you can get.