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Date:      14 May 2000 16:30:19 +0200
From:      Juergen Nickelsen <jnickelsen@acm.org>
To:        adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org.nospam
Cc:        freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already?
Message-ID:  <x7puqpp5l0.fsf@goting.jn.berlin.snafu.de>
In-Reply-To: Arun Sharma's message of "Sat, 13 May 2000 16:48:16 -0700"
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005130735370.20100-100000@hydrant.intranova.net> <391D4DAD.FD80980A@picusnet.com> <003b01bfbcdc$6059fb40$a164aad0@kickme> <391D71FE.1570F551@asme.org> <20000513205610.A22103@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <200005132348.QAA17056@sharmas.dhs.org>

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Arun Sharma <adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org> writes on freebsd-chat:

> Are you implying that communism and free speech are antonyms ? I think,
> communism and free speech are quite compatible, at least in theory.

In theory, yes, but I have yet to see a free-speech compatible
implementation of communism. Of the three main ones China, North
Korea, and the Soviet including its derivatives, the two former are
deploying crude protection mechanisms, and the latter crashed when
it ceased to do so.

-- 
Juergen Nickelsen


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