From owner-freebsd-chat Sat May 13 14:36: 8 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 8D29437BB18 for ; Sat, 13 May 2000 14:36:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in) Received: (qmail 29421 invoked from network); 13 May 2000 21:35:48 -0000 Received: from theory7.physics.iisc.ernet.in (qmailr@144.16.71.127) by theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in with SMTP; 13 May 2000 21:35:48 -0000 Received: (qmail 23269 invoked by uid 211); 13 May 2000 21:35:47 -0000 Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 03:05:47 +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: <20000514030547.H22405@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Mail-Followup-To: "G. Adam Stanislav" , "Pedro F. Giffuni" , gh , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG References: <3.0.6.32.20000513143506.00895650@mail85.pair.com> <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> <20000514021611.F22405@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <3.0.6.32.20000513162448.00894a70@mail85.pair.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20000513162448.00894a70@mail85.pair.com>; from redprince@redprince.net on Sat, May 13, 2000 at 04:24:48PM -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 G. Adam Stanislav said on May 13, 2000 at 16:24:48: > You have some theoretical ideas about Communism, but clearly no direct > experience. Not the Russian kind, no. There are lots of communists in India. It is perhaps the only country where communists have been elected to power (and out of power) -- thankfully only in two states and not at the centre. When you say "Stallman is a communist" surely you mean in theory: if you are merely talking of evil influence and so on, America's history of supporting tinpot dictatorships all over the world is worse than any communist country's (USSR included). Communism is a theory, your former country had its way of practising it, don't confuse the two issues. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message