Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 21:55:56 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: Juergen Nickelsen <jnickelsen@acm.org> Cc: adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000514214034.5152K-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <x7puqpp5l0.fsf@goting.jn.berlin.snafu.de>
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On 14 May 2000, Juergen Nickelsen wrote: > Arun Sharma <adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org> writes on freebsd-chat: > > > Are you implying that communism and free speech are antonyms ? I think, > > communism and free speech are quite compatible, at least in theory. > > In theory, yes, but I have yet to see a free-speech compatible > implementation of communism. Of the three main ones China, North > Korea, and the Soviet including its derivatives, the two former are > deploying crude protection mechanisms, and the latter crashed when > it ceased to do so. > It didn't. And the majority of the area covered still doesn't have free speech. The role of free speech was rather secondary to non-existant, which is to be expected in a society where evrybody is used to getting persecuted for not fitting in, not just unallowed speech. > -- > Juergen Nickelsen > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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