- You do not have choice of service providers. All providers are government department and there's nearly no competition.
- Try to use Google in China, lots of fun!
- Try to access any popular web site in China like Youtube, facebook, etc. Good luck.
- If you say something bad about the government on Internet, you may have the risk of being kidnapped by some unknown person and thrown into some unknown mountain area. (No kidding, one of my friend had this experience.)
Specific to RMS: I'm the translator of Free as in Freedom (Chinese edition.) Until now, I have no idea if the word "free" (自由) could appear in the title when we publish it.
Edit 1: grammar
I desire a highly secure and unfettered Internet, and I just get frustrated by countries, and companies, that get in the way of achieving this goal.
Try to access the internet in China. Good luck! (But Baidu always works)
Would you elaborate? This is very interesting. How did they get out of that situation?
Like one said, the Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it
Yes, only FSF doesn't use the term "open source," except to disavow it.
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.htm...
Another explanation of this is included in the "rider" that someone linked earlier this week:
They do make exceptions when there is strategic sense.
There are two inaccuracies with this statement:
1) The FSF does not disapprove of the use of non-copyleft free licenses. They encourage the GPL, but as pointed out below, they themselves have both released code under other licenses and approved of the use of other licenses.
2) You seem to have missed gavinpc's point, which is that the FSF is the Free Software Foundation, not the "Open Source Software Foundation". They don't say that "other open source licenses" aren't useful, because they don't refer to their own licenses as "open source" licenses. They dislike the term "open source" and don't use it themselves.
Is that really the case on Hacker News? I often feel like a rebel outcast here for thinking that technology being proprietary is a desirable thing.
I know I have the minority opinion, but I believe that a FSF world is the way go, long term. I think that tax jurisdictions that promote all kinds of open source, and an unfettered Internet will have long term advantages.
Edit: typo