On 06/18/2012 06:18 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
I hesitate to put words in people's mouths, and correct me if
I'm
wrong, but it reads to me as if Jay and others are arguing from an
incorrect premise. That premise is to assume that there is a
God-given right for people who own computing devices to retrofit
alternative operating systems onto those devices.
I want to put it out there that this is _not true_.
The problem with this claim is that it equivocates on the meaning of
"a right". There are at least two definitions of "a right" in this
sense: moral rights and legal rights. These are not the same. Moral
rights are not in the gift of any Government. While we may not have a
legal right to run whatever software we wish on hardware we own, it's
not at all unreasonable to claim a moral right to do so.
Andrew.