> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 11:34 AM > To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift - > slaveryware) > > > On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 04:03:25PM -0700, Bob Young wrote: > > > That's almost entirely a theoretical difference, in the real world > > this "freedom" is actually exercised very little if at all. > > Almost?!?
Yes Almost! > How many people actually use the freedoms guaranteed by the > US constitution? Article 1 - Free exercise of religion: Lots of people every day. Article 2 - Right to keep and bear arms: Regulated, but many many people own guns. Article 12 - Right to vote: True that the percentage of voter turn out isn't as high as it should be, but many people do vote. > For almost all of them, it is a theoretical freedom they never use. Bullshit, You think that people's free exercise of religion is a "theoretical freedom." > Look at the current brouhaha over habeas corpus for > non-citizens, just voted out of existence by Congress and almost > certain to be voided as unconstitutional by the Supreme Court for the > third time. Almost no US citizen will ever be affected by this -- > only two have been affected by it so far -- yet I doubt you'd be > interested in a constitutional amendment to remove it altogether. You'd have a point if open source actually provided some type *real* freedom for *everyone,* but it doesn't, and you don't. Open source has benefits, but claiming that it is somehow on the same plane as constitutional rights is just silly. > Good gosh. "Almost entirely a theoretical difference" -- what a > phrase. A completely valid one in relation to OSS. > I can't believe anyone could utter such nonsense. It's only nonsense if one has some blind allegiance to open source, and is therefore willing to bestow upon it attributes it doesn't actually have. -- Regards Bob Young -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list
