On Sunday 03 December 2006 18:01, David Golden stood up and addressed the masses in /gnu.misc.discuss/ as follows...:
> FSF supporters tend to be predominantly libertarian gun-nuts in my > experience, not marxists. [...] Well, I am certainly not a libertarian, and I'm not really a Marxist either. ;-) I must admit that I have a somewhat left-of-center bias, but this is only mildly the case. I do however have some very eccentric political ideas of which I think that they /might/ be an extension on the social-political plane of what the FSF is doing on the IT plane, but my ideas are still too roughly outlined and perhaps too naive - not to mention that they're probably way off-topic here - so I'm not going to expound on them any further. ;-) I think it would be safest to say that I'm someone who naively believes in justice - i.e. the concept of it; I have very little faith in the enforcement of it - and who also believes that the view narrows when you travel into the extremes, and that it's therefore best to keep a center view. I believe in the cause of Free Software, and it was as much a thrill to me to discover the GPL as discovering the technical aspects of GNU/Linux itself. Both discoveries occurred at the same time, by the way, through the purchase of a Mandrake 6.0 Powerpack in 1999, before I even had an internet connection at home. At that stage, I was using Windows NT as a compromise, because I had previously been an OS/2 user for many years, but I really wanted a UNIX-like operating system. I had already heard of GNU, but I had no idea of how advanced it had become in the meantime - likewise for the Linux kernel, of which I didn't even know that it was only a kernel back then - and as I had no internet at home, all I knew of UNIX-like operating systems was that they were very expensively licensed. Well, that is to say, I had of course also already worked with UNIX on machines that weren't my own - a mainframe was a bit too expensive for me... ;-) And so, there was GNU/Linux. Finally an affordable package, finally an affordable UNIX-style system. And it came (for most part) under this great license... I've been a faithful GNU/Linux user since, and a devout advocate of Free (Libre) Software. ;-) P.S.: I didn't mean to start a flamewar by my participation in this thread. I was just an ignorant newcomer to this newsgroup, unaware of who's who and what goes on. ;-) -- With kind regards, *Aragorn* (registered GNU/Linux user #223157) _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss