Is the command line the only way to free software?

Lim, Seung Chan slim-VL1tVIhH15PQjUSlxSEPGw at public.gmane.org
Wed Mar 17 23:10:08 EDT 2010


I just looked up Newton soup on wikipedia, but couldn't make much of
the description... How exactly does it do what I described?

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Richard Pieri <richard.pieri-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Mar 16, 2010, at 11:24 PM, Lim, Seung Chan wrote:
>>
>> Well, let me rephrase my question.... By "free software" I mean how
>> software can give us the freedom to take charge of our own lives.
>> Empower us to not only gain access to information, but also produce
>> new information, to take existing information and to synthesize them
>> in new ways that gives us a whole new perspective in life, to see more
>> choices than we previously thought we had. As in allowing us to be
>> creative, and to take matters into our own hands. To be able to do it
>> yourself.
>
> Yep.  That's Newton.  Newton's soup architecture was designed to do exactly what you describe.
>
> --Rich P.
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