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

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

   > It only gives you the right to use the software that you _already_
   > have, on _your_ machine.  That is all Freedom 0 says.

   That is not "all" it says.  If we're talking about the Freedom 0 from
   free-sw.html, it also says that user may use the software *how they
   want to*.  

And nothing precludes you from doing that with wget.

"The freedom to run the program as you wish means that you are not
forbidden or stopped from doing so. It has nothing to do with what
functionality the program has, or whether it is useful for what you
want to do."

Nobody stopped you from running wget, the result might not have be
useful (in that nothing gets downloaded).  But tha later is not a
right, since that means you can decide what _I_ have to do -- and you
have no business telling me what I use my software for (i.e. freedom
0).

   You have the same misunderstanding Brandon does, in
   thinking that it's merely a right to run the code (the use of which
   may then be controlled by someone other than the user).

That is exactly that freedom 0 means, since that is all that is says.