Re: Should we take steps to reduce russian access to Free Software?> the headache of it all dissolves in forgiveness

[Jacob Hrbek]

> I used the term "help your neighbor" to describe the purpose of
freedom 2 because "help your neighbor" is a traditional way to refer to
cooperating with your community and with the rest of society. -- RMS

How is that justifying the use of free software in russian military to
do war crimes worth of projected 1 000 000 civilian death _including
children_?

This is not cooperating with community and society, it's mass murder by
complacency and sooner we take action on this the sooner the russian gov
will have issues getting updates for GNU and FSF to contribute to the
non-fascist side of this war.

On 3/6/22 06:13, Richard Stallman wrote:
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> [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,     ]]]
> [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
>
>    > So again i repeat my argument the freedom 2 says: "The freedom to
>    > /redistribute/ and make c
opies __so you can help your neighbour.__"
> I used the term "help your neighbor" to describe the purpose of
> freedom 2 because "help your neighbor" is a traditional way to refer
> to cooperating with your community and with the rest of society.  I
> never intended it to mean that your use of freedom 2 was limited to
> people that live near you.
>
> Yeara ago I realized that people were getting the wrong idea from that
> word, so I started saying it differently.  But it took a long tine to
> recognize and replace the old wording in writing.
>
> If you see anything which describes freedom 2 using the word "neighbor",
> please try to get it corrected.  If you see this on gnu.org, please
> report it to webmasters@gnu.org.
>
> Whether you redistribute a free program to any given user
> is your choice.  Freedom 2 says you are free to do so, when you wish.
> However, as long as you're distributing the source code, it is always
> your choice whether to do it in any speci
fic instance.
> (The GNU GPL has a special rule for distributing a compiled form
> without source code.  If you do that in certain ways, you will be
> required to make the source code available laler.  That is so you
> can't deny source code to the community.)
>
> --
> Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org)
> Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
> Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
> Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
--
Jacob Hrbek, In support of ukraine sovereignty #supportUkraine

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