From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 13 15:22:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from postal.linkfast.net (postal.linkfast.net [208.160.105.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3A0F37B629 for ; Sat, 13 May 2000 15:22:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grasshacker@linkfast.net) Received: from leviathan (pegasus.over-yonder.net [208.160.105.40]) by postal.linkfast.net (Postfix) with SMTP id CC11C9B04; Sat, 13 May 2000 17:22:18 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <0071414018a9$ee531600$2869a0d0@leviathan> From: "gh" To: "G. Adam Stanislav" Cc: 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> <3.0.6.32.20000513162448.00894a70@mail85.pair.com> Subject: Re: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already? Date: Thu, 13 May 16500 17:28:30 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > At 02:16 14-05-2000 +0530, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > >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. > > Rahul, > > You have some theoretical ideas about Communism, but clearly no direct > experience. We have no common ground for any further discussion. > > Adam Communism is a set of "suggestions" (if you will) for running a state. So, in essence, Communism is just exactly that, a theory. What you have described in practice is not Communism, but a totalitarian government based on Communism. sheesh. Besides, communism and FSF are *not* the same things, or even the same topic. At most, FSF could be considered corporate, not governmental. Dan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message