From owner-freebsd-chat Sat May 13 14:49:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp6.mindspring.com (smtp6.mindspring.com [207.69.200.110]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86A3A37B822 for ; Sat, 13 May 2000 14:49:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhix@mindspring.com) Received: from mindspring.com (user-33qtjdv.dialup.mindspring.com [199.174.205.191]) by smtp6.mindspring.com (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA23493 for ; Sat, 13 May 2000 17:49:28 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <391DCF8E.ED183CF7@mindspring.com> Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 14:56:30 -0700 From: W Gerald Hicks X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already? 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> <20000514030547.H22405@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 -- Jerry Hicks jhix@mindspring.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message