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Re: [f-cpu] Far from the last word about license ;-) (long and rambling)
On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 08:58:39AM +0800, Glenn Alexander wrote:
[...]
> Trouble is: Who gets to define human rights? There is a convention but some
> (such as myself) find it lacking. For example, I believe that there is a
> basic human right to a productive life. To be denied this right is degrading
> and results in (socially expensive) mental problems - I have personal
> experience of this. Such a criteria would eliminate distribution in nearlty
> every country in the world today, particularly those in the West who have
> failed to provide near full employment in the face of technological-driven
> redundencies. [...]
Wait a minute... I didn't mean to forbid the use of the F-CPU in an
entire country or state. Neither in the US, nor in Russia, China or
Afghanistan. But I want people to recognize that they're responsible
for what they do with it.
--
Michael "Tired" Riepe <Michael.Riepe@stud.uni-hannover.de>
"All I wanna do is have a little fun before I die"
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