Comment Re:Idea assumes everyone knows Java (Score 1) 413
Because users aren't able to legally modify, study and distribute it? Plus, it's not in a suitable form for modification.
Because users aren't able to legally modify, study and distribute it? Plus, it's not in a suitable form for modification.
You think the FSF should prefix all of its opinions on its own website?
Psst, here's a copy of Facebook's secret code -- http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/rsrc.php/v1/yp/r/Ub2OCc5xWCb.js
They just have to provide the code under a free license. Running the code is another problem entirely.
We're not talking about forcing anyone to do anything -- but JavaScript is programming code too.
The FSF's goal is for all the software a user runs on their computer to be free software -- without a license, the software would be full copyright and not in a fit state for modification. This is completely within the goals of the FSF.
Most Facebook users use a browser written in C++ -- they don't know that either, yet free software browsers and rendering engines remain in common usage.
Out of interest, what do you disagree with?
WCDMA is the "3G" technology that the iPhone uses.
Maybe Green Dam contains copied without authorization -- I don't know.
But referring to copied code as "piracy" or "stolen" is propaganda, just as bad as the Chinese government's propaganda. The term "intellectual property" makes the article a vague and confused as the term itself -- http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html.
Whenever someone uses that term, you can't tell what in the world he might be talking about (unless you are an expert and can figure it out from other knowledge).
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