Re: [security-discuss] Freedom 0: the utilitarian vs. the deontologist

[Richard Stallman]

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  > Of course it does.  It's already been established that "stopping"
  > someone using wget in the manner they want suppresses freedom 0.


The word "stopping" is so vague, covering so many disparate
situations, that nothing meaningful can be said about it.

  > > You want to download from gnuradio.org using wget.

  > Not just that.  I want to download from gnuradio.org using wget to
  > proxy over Tor.

You are free to run wget to try to do this -- that is what freedom 0
means.

Whether it achieves the results you desire is another question.
Freedom 0 does not say anything about that.  Just because a program is
free, that does not guarantee that you can successfully do any
particular job with it.

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Dr Richard Stallman
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