<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 12:35 PM Russell Nelson <<a href="mailto:nelson@crynwr.com">nelson@crynwr.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
On 3/9/20 4:52 PM, Coraline Ada Ehmke wrote:<br>
> Not responding to this thread anymore, feel free to carry on without me.<br>
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No response to my observation that the OSD and ESD solve different <br>
problems (one the distribution and changing of software and the other <br>
use of software)? None?</blockquote><div><br></div><div>There was no response to any of my messages either, given if the goal is ethics and the protection of human rights as it relates to software then this policy goal is served by dis-empowering software owners, not empowering them.</div><div><br></div><div>Everything I need to know about "Ethical Source" was stated by Caroline on March 1'st in a tweet.<br>"I think the fundamental thing that bothers me the most about the OSD 1.x is that it grants rights downstream, but doesn’t give the creators any real rights. And that’s a major difference between open and #EthicalSource — ethical source is about empowering creators."</div><div><a href="https://twitter.com/CoralineAda/status/1234307401169408001">https://twitter.com/CoralineAda/status/1234307401169408001</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Good luck and bon voyage!<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It is hard for me not to feel exploited by a group of people who want to abuse decades of my work in order to to oppose my policy goals. I find it hard to understand why a group that wants the work of authors to not be abused by others seems to be so willing to do so themselves.</div><div><br></div><div>-- <br></div></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Russell McOrmond, Internet Consultant: <<a href="http://www.flora.ca/" target="_blank">http://www.flora.ca/</a>><br><br>"The government, lobbied by legacy copyright holders and hardware manufacturers, can pry my camcorder, computer, home theatre, or portable media player from my cold dead hands!" <a href="http://c11.ca/own" target="_blank">http://c11.ca/own</a></div></div></div></div>