From owner-freebsd-chat Sat May 13 18:24:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from bachue.usc.unal.edu.co (bachue.usc.unal.edu.co [168.176.3.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 049EA37BC0B for ; Sat, 13 May 2000 18:24:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from giffunip@asme.org) Received: from asme.org ([200.41.111.216]) by bachue.usc.unal.edu.co (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAAA33 for ; Sat, 13 May 2000 20:23:19 -0400 Message-ID: <391E005C.2B57FE3@asme.org> Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 20:24:44 -0500 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" Organization: Universidad Nacional de Colombia X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already? 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> <20000514010614.A16058@happy.checkpoint.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Anatoly Vorobey wrote: > [huge SNIP] > > Stallman has never argued, AFAIK, for abolishing *material* property > (which is actually *the* Communist idea; Communism as an ideology > is rather indifferent to intellectual property and its special status); > he has never argued against democracy, or capitalism, or free market, > or any other Western capitalist ideal. He has argued against > intellectual property, in particular its restrictions in software; and > that is a radical and doubtable idea, but to claim it's Communist is > to make a fool of oneself, IMHO. > Just wanted to make this clear: I don't claim that RMS is a communist. It is clear, though, that a reasonable parallel between with his ideas and communism can be drawn, and that nothing that he has said would indicate that he is not a communist. Being a communist is not a crime either. cheers, Pedro. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message