Re: Social Contract
Christopher Nelson wrote:
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 09:47:38PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
Mumia W wrote:
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That's it! You've quite certainly identified yourself as a member of the
Right Wing. You associate all attempts of people to resist the power of
I am not a Right Winger. I am not any sort of Socialist. The terms
"Left Wing" and "Right Wing" originate in the French Legislature,
where the two wings of the Socialist Parties sat in the left and
right wings of the building. Since I am not a Socialist, I am
neither Left Wing, nor Right Wing.
I'll wager that you know what Mumia meant, but in case you're only
Well, I'm not certain I fully understand what he meant, except
that for him the term "Right Wing" seems to indicate someone with
reprehensible beliefs, atttitudes, or actions. Certainly not someone
he choses to associate with.
political grounding is historical--Right Wing is those who favour status
quo and business' rights and capitalism and often restrictions on
personal rights. So you are most definately Right Wing, as the DFSG,
Umm. Not by my understanding of the term. But even by what you write
here, I'm not "Right Wing". I don't favor status quo. I do favor
capitalism. I do not favor restrictions on personal rights. I don't
know what "business' rights" means. Businesses are associations of
people. They don't have any existence apart from the people who
constitute them. Businesses (I suppose you mean "corporations") as
"persons" are legal fictions, and have no rights, only privileges.
The people who constitute the businesses have rights. So I don't see
how I can favor what I don't believe exists.
which support personal rights; changing the way 'traditional software'
is developed; and is not business-associated; scares and irks you so
greatly. And, according to Wikipedia, the original Right Wingers
It frightens me not a bit, nor does it irk me. Usually, anger is a
secondary reaction to fear. I see that Mumia appears to be angry.
I wonder what he fears? I'm certainly not angry nor fearful.
I am concerned sometimes by the lack of QA I see on releases of various
distributions of Linux. Debian seems somewhat better than others on
this score. That's one reason I have recommended it to others
who wish to load some version of Linux on their machines. QA policies
and procedures are a consideration for me. It is in this sense
that I don't like some of the ways I see "non traditional" development
taking place. But companies like MicroSoft also don't understand
how to do proper QA, either, so that's not a peculiar objection
to Debian or any other Linux distro.
weren't Socialists, but rather Monarchists. Take that for what you
will.
I'm certainly not a Monarchist.
Mike
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