Comments on: Russian Censorship Through Proprietary Software Licensing http://understandinglimited.com/2007/11/16/russian-censorship/ design & software freedom Sun, 07 Mar 2010 12:19:18 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: David Crossland http://understandinglimited.com/2007/11/16/russian-censorship/comment-page-1/#comment-10190 David Crossland Sat, 17 Nov 2007 00:39:19 +0000 http://understandinglimited.com/2007/11/16/russian-censorship/#comment-10190 <p>I think theres an important shared set of values in free speech, free press, and free software, and this news item is a point of trivia about that; while its true Putin probably would find some other way to silence criticism, while he is using unlicensed proprietary software, he is partially in the right. If he had to use some more underhanded way of silencing criticism, he would be more fully in the wrong.</p> I think theres an important shared set of values in free speech, free press, and free software, and this news item is a point of trivia about that; while its true Putin probably would find some other way to silence criticism, while he is using unlicensed proprietary software, he is partially in the right. If he had to use some more underhanded way of silencing criticism, he would be more fully in the wrong.

]]> By: Alexandre http://understandinglimited.com/2007/11/16/russian-censorship/comment-page-1/#comment-10172 Alexandre Fri, 16 Nov 2007 17:25:56 +0000 http://understandinglimited.com/2007/11/16/russian-censorship/#comment-10172 <p>Warez is just an excuse for ransacking here.</p> <p>BTW, you do remember about the tagged guides idea, do you? :)</p> Warez is just an excuse for ransacking here.

BTW, you do remember about the tagged guides idea, do you? :)

]]> By: Dan http://understandinglimited.com/2007/11/16/russian-censorship/comment-page-1/#comment-10159 Dan Fri, 16 Nov 2007 08:46:47 +0000 http://understandinglimited.com/2007/11/16/russian-censorship/#comment-10159 <p>Blaming the software for this is a bit silly. The point is that "Opposition political newspapers are being shut down in Russia." They are being shut down because the government wants them shut down, not because of the software they use to create their media. If they couldn't be shut down because of their software, another reason would be found to pull the plug.</p> Blaming the software for this is a bit silly. The point is that “Opposition political newspapers are being shut down in Russia.” They are being shut down because the government wants them shut down, not because of the software they use to create their media. If they couldn’t be shut down because of their software, another reason would be found to pull the plug.

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