Julian Assange wrote:
> Well and good, but without fear and hope there is no motivation to do
> anything. Which is quite apt for a body in the ground, but for upright
> specimens such philosophical sentiment leads to stagnation.
No, not true. Look into philosophy, theology,... there are other thi
Jerzy Karczmarczuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The tombstone of Nicos Kazantzakis (The Last Temptation of Christ)
> has the following inscription:
>
> I hope for nothing.
> I fear nothing.
> I am FREE.
>
> Perhaps this is a tiny bit closer to my personal perception of
> freedom
On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Michael T. Richter wrote:
> At 06:48 AM 1/13/00 , Jerzy wrote:
> > Modifying source codes of your development tools is clearly a
> > pathology if not a perversion. It diverts you from your principal
> > task which should *exploit* those tools.
>
> I'm glad to finally find
At 06:48 AM 1/13/00 , you wrote:
> Modifying source codes of your development tools is clearly a
> pathology if not a perversion. It diverts you from your principal
> task which should *exploit* those tools.
I'm glad to finally find someone saying this in this forum. I was very
close to unsubsc
"Manuel M. T. Chakravarty" wrote:
> /* snip */
> You are completely and utterly missing the point. Or should
> I say, you are confusing it. Ian is not talking about moral
> here (moral arguments can be made, but he obviously didn't
> in the text you quoted) - he is talking about the practical
Jerzy Karczmarczuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote,
> Ian Jackson continues the discussion on Haskell/Clean issue, and
> says about the possibility to modify the sources:
>
> > We're programmers here, aren't we ? Modifying source code is
> > what we do. If I encounter a bug in software I'm using I