On Tue, 24 May 2011 16:05:04 -0300, Nicolás Reynolds <[email protected]> wrote: > > First of all is the use of "Free World"[0] to refer to a certain sector of > > the world. As the Wikipedia reference says, it was coined during the Cold > > War to refer to US and other non-communist countries. In case you don't > > know, during those times the US government and it's agencies[1] not only > > promoted unfreedomness in Latin America and other countries, but also > > supported and trained dictatorships that tortured and murderer people por > > political reasons (Argentina, for instance, has 30.000 missing persons and > > 500 kids that were illegally adopted by military officers, but only 100 of > > which were returned to their families during the past 26 years). So "Free > > World" actually doesn't mean anything like it to us.
When Eben speaks of the "Free World", I take him to mean "the community of people who so love freedom that they love free software and the culture of sharing". Best regards, James _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
