Waging War on Business

[Derek Neighbors]

> Hmmmm....America - and business has the right to assume that you are
> breaking the law and you have to prove that you are not!  I thought that
> you are presumed innocent until proven guilty applied in this country
> (at least for now).  I guess presumed innocence does not apply to
> software marketed by a big-enough monopolist.

The thing is that by agreeing to the EULA you allow them to put you under
their subjegation.  If you don't like giving up your rights do not agree
to their EULA. ;)

A common example in the non software world is Home Owners Association.  I
have freedom to expression.  Say to fly an American Flag.  However, if I
join a Home Owners Association and its by laws say I can not fly a flag
over 10 ft in the air.  If I erect a flagpole 20ft high and put an
American flag on it, they can make me take it down.  Because I have
forfeited my rights to them for certain situations.

Again this is good news not bad news.  Because it should help the everyday
user understand more and more why propreitary software is so evil.  This
is why I dont use the term Open Source.  As I can give you the source code
and still subjegate you.  It is the freedoms that really release the end
user from the lording of the copyright holder, not the source code.

-Derek