[Discuss] OSS licenses (was Home NAS redux)

Mark Woodward markw at mohawksoft.com
Thu Jan 10 08:24:46 EST 2013


On 01/09/2013 12:09 PM, Rich Pieri wrote:
> On Wed, 09 Jan 2013 11:57:37 -0500
> Mark Woodward <markw at mohawksoft.com> wrote:
>
>> That largely depends on your view of society as a whole. Totally
>> unrestrained "freedom" is not possible in populations greater than
>> 1. Oliver Wendel Holmes, Jr quipped "The right to swing my fists ends
>> where the other man's nose begins."
> You are conflating rights with freedoms. Still. Please stop it.
>
There is no conflation, the two are very much related. Please explain 
how "rights" are different than "freedoms" in a way that describing 
freedoms as rights is improper. A freedom is typically a right.



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