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Socialist or immature
billy_gates:
quote:Originally posted by Linux User #5225982375:
Here's some RMS quotes that I think are kind of relavent to this discussion:
"We like to think that our society encourages helping your neighbor; but each time we reward someone for obstructionism, or admire them for the wealth they have gained in this way, we are sending the opposite message.
Software hoarding is one form of our general willingness to disregard the welfare of society for personal gain. We can trace this disregard from Ronald Reagan to Jim Bakker, from Ivan Boesky to Exxon, from failing banks to failing schools. We can measure it with the size of the homeless population and the prison population. The antisocial spirit feeds on itself, because the more we see that other people will not help us, the more it seems futile to help them. Thus society decays into a jungle.
If we don't want to live in a jungle, we must change our attitudes. We must start sending the message that a good citizen is one who cooperates when appropriate, not one who is successful at taking from others. I hope that the free software movement will contribute to this: at least in one area, we will replace the jungle with a more efficient system which encourages and runs on voluntary cooperation."
[ March 26, 2003: Message edited by: Linux User #5225982375 ]
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I want to hear what that means to you.
To me it means that people aren't very good at taking advantage of one another and should improve or face poverty.
zoolooo:
Billy Gates: Mac Comrade Captain,
In the spirit that this thread started...
"You are immature, grow up."
:D
comrade zooloo
billy_gates:
quote:Originally posted by zoolooo:
Billy Gates: Mac Comrade Captain,
In the spirit that this thread started...
"You are immature, grow up."
:D
comrade zooloo
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Of course I am, I'm 16. I have much Growing and maturing to do. In the meantime I think my arguments make some sense, but I can see that this post is practically dead now.
publiknotice:
Know u just don't want to live in a homoginzed world where there is no option and a big greedy company wants to own and run anything that slightly threatens their shareholders profits.
If we learnt anything from the 1980's its don't allow 1 company to have to much control of any media distribution network.
I am sure that Rupert murdoch and bill gates can have their secret orgys without threat of being touched whilst weilding far to much power.
but people are clocking on, and unless you get rid of the 'net nutrallity' (maybe by threating senators and politicians with bad press exposure via (sly) fox or MSNBC unless they get rid of the net nutrallity law! - no shit it could happen.
Anyone who has seen aol's new marketing ploy would be forgiven for thinking that a terrorist pedo are about to jump through their screen any second -NOT TRUE! (all add more to this when there is time).
Anyway, good to see the whole world isn't a bunch of lemmings, there IS hope!
Lead Head:
Holy mother thread resurection!
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