[ale] [OT]Happy July 4

[Jim Kinney]

I like the idea.
On Jul 4, 2016 1:13 PM, "DJ-Pfulio" <djpfulio at jdpfu.com> wrote:

> Time to find my copy of the US Constitution for the annual reading this
> evening.
> Tradition here. Doesn't take much time - only about 20 min.
>
>
> Was just thinking that the GPL isn't enough.  We need licenses which
> prohibit
> capture of personal data without explicit approval of the end-user.
>
> Or has that horse already left the barn? Has the AGPL really helped much
> with
> the issues it was trying to fix?  Would a P-GPL (privacy) addon for the
> AGPL,
> LGPL and GPL be useful?
>
> Or not?
>
>
> On 07/04/2016 12:52 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> > The GPL was a gift.
> >
> > Most of the other freedoms were granted by persuasive argument or else
> the
> > grantor decided that continued bloodshed was more costly than
> capitulation and
> > retreat. In the case of the latter, those freedoms were not granted to
> all, but
> > instead held in trust and under the control by the leaders and their
> heirs and
> > assigns of the bloodshed event.
> >
> > On Jul 4, 2016 11:51 AM, "Charles Shapiro" <hooterpincher at gmail.com
> > <mailto:hooterpincher at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     Freedom is not given.  It must be taken.
> >
> >     -- CHS
> >
> >
> >     On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 6:20 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com
> >     <mailto:jim.kinney at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >         Hear, hear!
> >
> >         Cheers to real freedom!
> >
> >         On Jul 4, 2016 9:18 AM, "Thompson Freeman" <
> tfreeman at intel.digichem.net
> >         <mailto:tfreeman at intel.digichem.net>> wrote:
> >
> >
> >             Nobody has stated it yet - Happy Independence Day!
> >
> >             Not a traditional sentiment - but I'd also like to note the
> people
> >             who write, maintain, and generally make possible the open
> >             source/libre software which doesn't doesn't intrude, snoop,
> market
> >             to, or seek to control the user as so much of modern life
> does.
> >             Thank you to them.
> >
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