Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 15:22:44 -0500 From: W Gerald Hicks <wghicks@bellsouth.net> To: Jamie Bowden <jamie@itribe.net> Cc: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG, wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net Subject: Re: More important Windows Refund Day coverage... Message-ID: <199902212022.PAA11490@bellsouth.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 21 Feb 1999 00:49:04 EST." <199902210552.AAA18634@gatekeeper.itribe.net>
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> What crack is he on? Maybe he didn't notice that communism as a social > experiment failed before it ever got off the ground. The leninist > states that grew out of it also failed, though it took far longer. From a global perspective, it's probably a smart bet for RMS to take a quasi-communist stance. Worldwide, I'd guess that there remain a large number of communists. Having a strong dislike for communism *is* more prominent among Americans. I don't have faith in the traditional form of communist ideology either, but do believe that the _voluntary_ form of communism sweeping through the software industry today is of historical importance and that this "revolution" is borne of similar frustations felt by the serfs (engineers) toward the czars (big business). For these reasons, don't be surprised to find quite a few people in the free software movement possessing strong communist belief systems. Cheers, Jerry Hicks wghicks@bellsouth.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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