Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2011 00:28:02 +0200 From: "Christopher J. Ruwe" <cjr@cruwe.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS Message-ID: <20111029002802.767a536e@dijkstra> In-Reply-To: <20111028175401.17906e52@scorpio> References: <20111028160419.14aa5bb3@scorpio> <201110282135.p9SLZK80075050@mail.r-bonomi.com> <20111028175401.17906e52@scorpio>
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On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 17:54:01 -0400 Jerry <jerry@seibercom.net> wrote: > On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:35:20 -0500 (CDT) > Robert Bonomi articulated: >=20 > >=20 > > On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:04:19 -0400, Jerry <jerry@seibercom.net> > > pontificated: > > > > > > I buy my cars from known corporations and not the local chop-shop. > > > My drugs come form known pharmaceutical corporations and not the > > > local pusher. I like my device specific codes to come from those > > > best able to supply them, the OEM. > >=20 > > "I am just going to reply to this one point because it is where > > you(sic) entire argument breaks down." > >=20 > > That attitude is entirely acceptable for _your_ decision making. > > Asserting that nobody else shoul(sic) have any other alternatives to > > what you think is 'acceptable' is downright fascist. >=20 > Who, or is it whom you choose to be your supplier is entirely a > decision you have to make based on your needs and desires. My point is > that anyone offering such products should be to some degree held > legally responsible to their worth. A "Fly by Night" operation is > totally unacceptable to me. If you find it acceptable then so be it. > Remember the adage: "You get what you pay for." >=20 > By the way, calling me a Fascist when a significant number of users > of Open Source are socialist is rather funny. >=20 =46rom a point of view a political sciences theorist might assume, fascism an= d socialism are not that far apart. Both need to abolish individual liberti= es quite soon. Which is what you seem to claim ... abolish the right of the= individual to make contracts based on his/her terms. BTW, I do not believe that many open source users would accept a serious decline of their civil and legal liberty. So I do not believe many are really more than cherry-picking socialists, even if calling oneself socialist is somehow en vogue. We could debate anarchism, though, ... ;-) --=20 Christopher J. Ruwe TZ GMT + 2
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