Re: [OT] The only thing I miss about Windows
On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 11:33, Jens Grivolla wrote:
> John Hasler <john@dhh.gt.org> writes:
>
> > If I believed that there was anything "Socialist" about Free Software I
> > would cease contributing to it.
>
> Free Software without the concept of "giving what you can, getting
> what you need" is a rather strange thought. So strange that I suspect
> what you really need is to look up "socialist" in a dictionary.
>
> Ciao,
> Jens
In certain areas of this planet, people have developed *impressions* of
the meanings of various political philosophies without having the
opportunity to know the actual details and philosophies of each - be
that Socialist, Communist, Liberal, Libertarian, Conservative,
Capitalist, Laisse-Faire or whichever. Socialism and Communism have been
particularly demonised in North America, while for long stretches the
Eastern Bloc did the same to Capitalism, leading to some erroneous
beliefs about what each entails and advocates. The fact is that most all
philosophies pursue positive values, but have negative side effects.
Often, the more disruption to the status quo and developed human
behaviour involved, the greater the negative effects.
On that point, this is not the Debian-Philosophies list.
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