Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 09:20:32 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Arun Sharma <adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org>, Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Cc: Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The Ethics of Free Software Message-ID: <4.3.1.2.20000524091648.047b25c0@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20000523224731.A16545@sharmas.dhs.org> References: <20000524101006.A29351@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <4.3.1.2.20000523191700.049c5260@localhost> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005231825510.50384-100000@dt051n0b.san.rr.com> <20000524101006.A29351@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
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At 11:47 PM 5/23/2000, Arun Sharma wrote: >I don't have a formal training in economics. But common sense tells me >that if everyone multiplies their wealth by 100x, the world is >essentially unchanged and the economy would've expanded by 100x. And the wealth isn't wealth anymore. ;-) >I find the communist bashing and repeated references to their stupidity >a bit amusing. Even Meyer's article had references to it. After reading >some of these discussions, "You're a communist", sounds worse tha >"you're a filthy dimwit bastard, with no morality" :) Stallman, Linus >and every major personality seems to be afraid of the term, even when >they share some of the same philosophy. Actually, the Communist leaders were quite smart and very good at exploiting others. There's an old saying: "Under Communism, man exploits man, but under capitalism it's the other way around." Stallman merely uses some of the misleading rhetoric that the Communists used. He does this because it has historically proven to be effective. I am convinced that he would use WHATEVER would work, just so it hurt the people who he mistakenly believes once hurt him. (His crusade, if you know his history, is really a personal vendetta.) --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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