Some of you may have seen this blog post from last week, entitled ``My free software will respect users or it will be bullshit''. http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/32686.html I encourage you to read it, but the concluding paragraph summarises it well: The four freedoms are only meaningful if they result in real-world benefits to the entire population, not a privileged minority. If your approach to releasing free software is merely to ensure that it has an approved license and throw it over the wall, you're doing it wrong. We need to design software from the ground up in such a way that those freedoms provide immediate and real benefits to our users. Anything else is a failure. Let's have a discussion about this article at our meeting on Thursday. For what it's worth, I disagree with it (although I agree with pretty much all of the points in support of it). Come along Thursday if you want to find out why ;) Cheers, Fraser