From owner-freebsd-chat Sat May 13 13:46:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in (theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in [144.16.71.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 38D4E37B7A3 for ; Sat, 13 May 2000 13:46:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in) Received: (qmail 28976 invoked from network); 13 May 2000 20:46:13 -0000 Received: from theory7.physics.iisc.ernet.in (qmailr@144.16.71.127) by theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in with SMTP; 13 May 2000 20:46:13 -0000 Received: (qmail 23214 invoked by uid 211); 13 May 2000 20:46:11 -0000 Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 02:16:11 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: "G. Adam Stanislav" Cc: Rahul Siddharthan , "Pedro F. Giffuni" , gh , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already? Message-ID: <20000514021611.F22405@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Mail-Followup-To: "G. Adam Stanislav" , "Pedro F. Giffuni" , gh , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG References: <391D71FE.1570F551@asme.org> <391D4DAD.FD80980A@picusnet.com> <003b01bfbcdc$6059fb40$a164aad0@kickme> <391D71FE.1570F551@asme.org> <20000513205610.A22103@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <3.0.6.32.20000513143506.00895650@mail85.pair.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20000513143506.00895650@mail85.pair.com>; from redprince@redprince.net on Sat, May 13, 2000 at 02:35:06PM -0500 X-Operating-System: Linux 2.2.14 alpha X-Question: Do you enjoy reading pointless headers? Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > >You may hate everything he says but you can't call him a communist unless > >you have no idea what he's about or what communism is about. > > As someone who spent the first 29 years under Communism, I have a good idea > of what Communism is about. Stallman's ideas are quite Communist. Communism is about state control and restricting individual freedom -- originally in economic matters, like manufacturing and so on, but in practice in everything including speech and expression. The theory is that individuals are selfish so the state has to tell them what to do. Capitalism is about maximising individual freedom and using individual selfishness to increase social good. But a capitalist society still has some government enforcement mechanisms, like copyright/patent laws, antitrust laws and so on. Stallman wants to reduce the artificial monopolies like patents and copyrights. His ideas are contrary to the corporate culture in America, but in exactly the opposite direction that communism is. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message