Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 14:56:30 -0700 From: W Gerald Hicks <jhix@mindspring.com> To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already? Message-ID: <391DCF8E.ED183CF7@mindspring.com> References: <3.0.6.32.20000513143506.00895650@mail85.pair.com> <391D71FE.1570F551@asme.org> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005130735370.20100-100000@hydrant.intranova.net> <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> <20000514030547.H22405@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
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Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > 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. > Truth is folks, I can't think of a single empire which has not descended into tyranny. If not toward its own peoples then toward the populations of its conquered nations. My belief is that GNU/FSF could become a tyrannical force as well. In some respects it already has. Still, I don't mind importing a little wheat from a communist nation <g> -- Jerry Hicks jhix@mindspring.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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