On 7/13/13 8:28 PM, in article [email protected], "flatfish+++" <[email protected]> wrote:
... >> I think open source will stick around... but the herd-like group of open >> source "advocates" (a minority in the open source world) will continue to be >> proved wrong. >> >> Stallman and his followers will continue to insist that the restrictions >> they like (the control they want) is what makes thing most free and some >> will even say it has some sort of spiritual significance. It is a religion >> to them. >> >>> Through the years, I warned people on Usenet and IRC (especially >>> Freenode) about NSA code in Linux and they told me "Living Standard" was >>> a MAFIAA coup waiting to happen. They said "You're crazy", "it's >>> impossible", "You're paranoid", "Don't use the Internet at all!", etc. >>> Now look what their gullibility and blind trust of government spooks and >>> multinational corporations got us! >> >> Corporations will gain more and more power - and governments will bow down >> to them more and more. > > Corporation = Government.... > > Do you honestly believe your vote counts as much as IBM's or > Microsoft's or MSNBC's or..... ? Well, they can buy people's opinions and pretty much force votes. It is insane. Free speech makes sense - completely. But money is *not* free speech - if it was then as a defense in a court case you could just pay the judge or jurors! > The USA is NOT a democracy. > > It's a corporate oligarchy. Petty much. -- "Blocking adolescents¹ access to porn, or keeping them ignorant of sex in any way, is likely to stunt their emotional growth and make them vulnerable to mistakes that can hurt them badly." -- Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
