From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
To: Thomas Lord <lord@emf.net>
Cc: julien@danjou.info, emacs-devel@gnu.org,
carsten.dominik@gmail.com, rms@gnu.org, dave@lab6.com
Subject: Re: Google modules integration
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 21:38:59 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zkvkzeho.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1284404822.3329.135.camel@dell-desktop.example.com>
Thomas Lord writes:
> They would rather leverage their raw data to attack
> software freedom as pertains to maps (much as they
> attack software freedom as pertains to search).
I see no (necessary) attack on *software* freedom here. They're
simply keeping the *data* secret.
"Simple" of course does not mean "good". It just means that there is
nothing runnable here for the user to study, modify, or redistribute.
Google could quite possibly freely distribute all the software used,
and still maintain a profitable monopoly over the data. (More likely,
they do have substantial proprietary software involved in the
databases and image generation -- but OTOH they probably want
everything in the Maps API to be free software.)
That's why I think it is a mistake to distinguish between software and
other information (as the Free Documentation License does, for
example).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-14 12:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-09 20:23 Google modules integration Julien Danjou
2010-09-09 22:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-09 22:56 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-09-09 23:36 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-09 23:43 ` Jambunathan K
2010-09-10 6:36 ` Glenn Morris
2010-09-11 5:29 ` Richard Stallman
2010-09-12 0:36 ` Glenn Morris
2010-09-12 1:42 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-09-12 2:29 ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-09-12 9:34 ` Jambunathan K
2010-09-12 10:12 ` Jeff Clough
2010-09-13 2:07 ` Richard Stallman
2010-09-12 17:27 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-09-13 7:18 ` Richard Stallman
2010-09-12 11:24 ` Richard Stallman
2010-09-12 18:35 ` Glenn Morris
2010-09-13 7:18 ` Richard Stallman
2010-09-13 16:22 ` Jambunathan K
2010-09-14 8:16 ` Richard Stallman
2010-09-10 6:29 ` Julien Danjou
2010-09-10 6:43 ` Glenn Morris
2010-09-11 5:29 ` Richard Stallman
2010-09-11 12:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-12 11:23 ` Richard Stallman
2010-09-09 23:33 ` Sebastian Rose
2010-09-10 6:17 ` Julien Danjou
2010-09-10 8:30 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-09-10 11:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-11 5:30 ` Richard Stallman
2010-09-10 8:08 ` Andy Wingo
2010-09-10 11:26 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2010-09-13 14:36 ` James Cloos
2010-09-10 15:42 ` Richard Stallman
2010-09-10 17:47 ` Thomas Lord
2010-09-10 18:03 ` Chad Brown
2010-09-10 18:10 ` Thomas Lord
2010-09-11 15:50 ` Richard Stallman
2010-09-10 19:07 ` Sebastian Rose
2010-09-11 15:49 ` Richard Stallman
2010-09-11 20:03 ` Sebastian Rose
2010-09-11 15:50 ` Richard Stallman
2010-09-13 19:07 ` Thomas Lord
2010-09-13 19:09 ` Thomas Lord
2010-09-15 2:39 ` Richard Stallman
2010-09-14 12:38 ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
2010-09-15 2:39 ` Richard Stallman
2010-09-11 5:38 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-09-12 11:24 ` Richard Stallman
2010-09-12 17:21 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-09-20 0:16 ` Richard Stallman
2010-09-21 5:40 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-09-19 9:34 ` Julien Danjou
2010-09-21 16:01 ` Chong Yidong
2010-09-21 16:30 ` Julien Danjou
2010-09-21 16:50 ` Chong Yidong
2010-09-21 17:24 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2010-09-21 17:25 ` Sebastian Rose
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