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Re: PROPOSED: the Dictator Test (was: Contractual requirements [was: request-tracker3: license shadiness])



On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 01:13:43AM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> "Autocrat" and "dictator" are roughly synonymous and just refer to
> systems of government where all power stems from a single individual;
> the UK was an autocracy for much of its history without individual
> freedom being significantly impaired. I think the word you want is
> "totalism" (as in "totalitarian").

I'm deliberately trying to come up with a catchy and emotive name for the
test.

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