[not entirely OT] proper terms for grades of freedom

[Nadav Har'El]

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote about "Re: [not entirely OT] proper terms for grades of freedom":
> On 6/10/10, Nadav Har'El <nyh at math.technion.ac.il> wrote:
> 
> > I am guessing that Stallman *wanted* there to be four freedoms, as a
> > reference
> > to the Roosevelt's four freedoms
> > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Freedoms)
> 
> Hmm, interesting...

Yes, I always find it amusing that when hearing about the "Four Freedoms",
Linux geeks think first of Stallman ;-)

In his January 1941 speech, almost a year before Pearl Harbor, FDR told
congress that the time for non-interventionism is over. That Germany is out
to conquer the whole world, and to destroy the four freedoms that Americans
hold dear. Therefore America must start to help the allies much more seriously,
and invest much more of its manpower and economy into producing weapons and
supplies for the allies than it has done so far. Two months later, congress
authorized the "Lend-Lease" program which over the war supplied 1,000 billion
dollars (in today's currency) of millitary supplies to the allies.

> > I'd call it hannukah-candle software - you can look at it, but you cannot
> > use it ;-)
> 
> Pardon my public display of political incorrectness, but the term I
> myself thought of was "lap-dance software" (I don't have much

A more neutral phrase can be "read-only source". You can read it, but
cannot modify it...

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