His revelations about NSA spying outside the USA have caused severe and lasting damage to the USA's ability to betray its allies.
The USA now has the oportunity to begin to earn the trust of its people so it can defend its national interests.

If the GPL software was dual licenced and you could just pay money in order to avoid the obligations of the GPL, would you do it ?

Or are you only willing to accept software that is free as in speech and free as in beer, so you dont have to pass on either ?

Games are one of the oldest and most powerful learning systems we have. Computer games obviously lose the physical benefit of RL game,s but they still have mental benefits.

They can teach Logic, promote social skills (as compared to TV), and can be good emotionally just ot blow of some steam.

I understand the drama with debian and non-free games, but surely you can seperate the two concepts.

Thanks, ignorance is bliss.

Good luck with changing the whole world jsut so they agree with you.

I think what you call wonderland was the "normal" world even though it was not real.

Here in the normal world its common for people to put there dollar values on things (subjectively), even if that value is not real (objective).

Corporations do capitalise on Libre code.

You obviously took the red pill, come back when your ready.

Free and Open source software are about working together to write software, its unquestionably good.

There are tens of billions of dollars worth of Libre code out there, with thousands of unpunished violators, and only 2 or 3 people in the world defending it.

And this "community" persistently rallies against working tegether Legally with CLA, i just dont understand, is it purely a trust thing ?

(And if you want to help defend Free Software, consider donating to the Software Freedom Conservency)

A lot of mobiles come with Radio receivers, so in theory the NSA could use the backdoors they have in phones that are known to be nearby (from GPS) to syncronise receiving with the burst transmission.

Use the phones bandwidth to send the data home.

You better be careful that tinfoil isnt shaped like an antenna.

To fix that you just need to make sure the tinfoil is eathed properly, but then you also need to make sure they arent doign anything tricky wit hthe earth leakage current.

Also, the NSA might be monitoring EM radiation from your external power supply.

I suggest you make tinfoil glasses and earplugs, ignorance is bliss.

A corporation uses free software and is committed to not contribute anything back (freeloading), yet one of their workers does so in their own time (contirbuting).

In that case the company has unknowingly contributed to free software in the way of promotional work, but that has to be weighed against the damage they do to free software by trying to prevent their workers contributing in the first place.

Yea, thats a fair point. "freeloaders" do have a self interest to provide constructive criticism to their suppliers irrespective of the conditions under which where provided the goods.

Users are freeloaders if they are ideologically opposed to contributing or participating in the community.

If people dont contribute because they dont know how, but would like to, then that fine, maybe one day they will be able to. Nothing to lose, everythign to gain by havign them around.

If people (or more likely corporations) are ideologically opposed to contributing back to the communtiy because they dont want to mix "their valuable IP" with the communities IP then are a dead weight to us. We would be much better off pushing them to use inferior proprietary software so their competitors who arent so short sighted can win.

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Someone should invent metawords to defelect metawords.

Socially retarded attitudes such as this are why normal people throw rocks at you.