On 2010-10-14, J.H.Boersema <[email protected]> wrote: [...] > About the attraction of new programmers ... if I can find the time > and energy to follow up on you recommendations (i appreciate your ideas), [...]
http://www.libreplanet.org/wiki was suggested ... Connecting ... <joshb> 'thinking global, acting local' ? hmm... i register my objection, because that is part of the one-world-empire push of the western banking cartel. (But if it is no more then a contemporary slogan it doesn't matter (referring to the headline on www.libreplanet.org/wiki). All things 'world wide' tend to have no democracy to them, the size is super-human; thus centralization of power is a big threat imho. Sorry, i can't participate in something like that. 2010 Oct 14 10:25:19 <-- joshb has left #libreplanet It may be that if there is one area at the moment where production is virtually global and integrated, then it is the free software 'movement.' Hence something like this attempting to have a Continental reach of even a global reach without any apparent attempt to keep the organizations nationally and/or locally independent and act as a sort of (con)federation at best, may be somewhat natural and likely to occur. However that doesn't necessarily make it right; I think every effort should be spend on distributing the power, rather then concentrating it. This is particularly true in the world of today, where we are under a great threat from a western attempt at a global world empire (that most uninformed and ignorant people probably will only become aware off once world war 3 is well underway, if even then). By becoming a conduit for the global empire its cultural fluff of totalitarian global unity of culture, law and governance, they play a problematic tune at the worst possible moment, imho. Uncompromizing in the pursuit of justice. (I'm not sure how politically aware programmers are expected to be, so it may all just be harmless bumbling along and writing funny slogans that seemed catchy at the moment. Lack of numbers also means a global organization is far more likely; but still since everyone lives in some nation the 'mother' organization could take an independence promoting stance to national chapters, imho.) The danger with a total contentration of power is that corruption, once it sets in, you loose everything at once. Secondly it has a totalitarian flavor because there is no more diversity, no more cultural growth, everything is singular. Also the decisions are extremely heavy as it affects everything, thus things slow down and may become completely stagnant culturally. The human element is gone if you organize globally; there is no way to meet with everyone world wide. -- _ _ /_\ _ _ http://www.Law4.org Free markets and democracy, \ /v`V^v\ / but now: properly. /_\_#_#_/_\ \ / Day 170 of the revolution. _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
