Re: Balance - (was RE: Formal Objection to Working Group Decision to publish Encrypted Media Extensions specification as a First Public Working Draft (FPWD))

> I respect your right to hold the principles (and licenses) that are the cornerstone of FOSS as "sacred", just as much as I respect other principled convictions such as not eating pork (Jews), beef (Hindus) or meat period (Vegetarians/Vegans). That doesn't mean I or you have the right to protest and block grocery stores from selling beef, pork or any other form of meat. That isn't balanced - that is forcing your point of view on everyone, whether they agree or not.
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That's a danger comparation, since today there's a lot of
superstitions on religions today and seems that FOSS movements are
filosofical-equal to them, while not. It's accepted from a rational
perspective that in origin, religions mandates, laws and concepts was
acceptable due to their conditions that today doesn't apply, like high
calorities on pork meat (not desirable for heated countries, but
really good for cold, northerm ones), and this concepts where designed
in a way all people would understand to protect them, and they have
perdured until today without discussion.

FOSS ideologic also fix some current problems, but instead of being
dictated by governators, superstitions, fear and tradition, they are
builded based on common sense and also something that have been taugh
(also in a good way) since we were child: the beneficts of sharing,
everything. On the other side, DRM systems also try to solve some
related problems, but being dictated and forced and trying to convince
us instead of by natural though, so in that way, it has by far more
points of common with traditional religions than the FOSS movements.


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monton de sitios diferentes, simplemente escribe un sistema operativo
Unix."
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