[Fsf-friends] Continuation....of Basics......

[Sriharsha Vedurmudi]

Mahesh T. Pai wrote:

>Sriharsha Vedurmudi said on Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 12:16:31PM +0530,:
> 
> > among  the   vast  majority  of  non-software   companies  who  are
> > interested in  using a popular software,  if it is  free. Now, dont
> > you think that  cheating such a company is  easy? Honestly, one can
> > mutate a program
>
>You are wrong here. You have a very wrong notion of the community.
>  
>
I did earlier, but Joe Steeve in his last mail cleared all my doubts. I 
think you have not read the subsequent posts, you can find them in our 
archieves at: 
http://mm.gnu.org.in/pipermail/fsf-friends/2004-September/date.html if 
you did not receive the mails. As far as I am concerned, if a question 
is answered or a doubt is clarified, there is no need for other good 
samaritans to dig out the question from older mail and re-answer it, 
unless the answer already given is incorrect and/or adds ambiguity. So, 
kindly refrain from it.

> > (atleast the C source code is in plain ASCII?) and then take the CD
> > to  that company  saying he/she  has downloaded  that  software and
> > install it (and  the company feels happy that  their time and money
> > is saved from getting used for downloading it, esp. if its large).
>
>1. Mr. L. User, the boss here, deserves the sysadmin he has.
>
>2. The sysadmin deserves the software he gets.
>
>3. You can verify by compiling the sources yourselves, which you
>   cannot with non-free software. Not even if it is opensource, like
>   the way M$ has offerred the UK government the other day.
>  
>
If you would have read my mails/posts properly, I again-and-again said 
that I was talking specifically about many small-time  NON-COMPUTER 
related firms who would'nt have a Full-Time Administrator also. DONT 
EXPECT MOST OF THEM TO BE WISE ENOUGH TO UNDERSTAND CONCEPTS OF FREE 
SOFTWARE, COMPILATIONS, DIGITAL CERTIFICATES JUST LIKE YOU DO. Maybe 
they are few in number when compared to others, but they still exist. 
All they use computers is for simplifying (if possible) their works and 
entertainment. Now, if you say, I DONT CARE ABOUT SUCH PEOPLE and 
OFFICES, LET THEM GO TO HELL, well, I resign from trying to put forth my 
point.

> > (and I  say so after  having witnessed disasters caused  by similar
> > methods). My point here was that apart from
>
>Ah.  A  /disaster/? Can  I have details?   Please ask the  master mind
>behind the disaster to give the full source code to his modifications.
>If you  are sure that the  guy who modified was  acting with malicious
>motives, why did you not take appropriate action??
>  
>
 Are you going to compensate for the losses incurred? A few hundreds or 
thousands may look like peanuts to you, but not to everyone. Do you 
expect that the mastermind will bring his mutated code for your kind 
perusal and dance and make merry when you discover that it is not 
original? Coming to why I did not take action, I got in touch with them 
after the damage was done. Ofcourse the problem was solved.

-Harsha.

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