Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 12:39:44 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Trent Waddington <s337240@student.uq.edu.au> Cc: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, David Johnson <djohnson@acuson.com>, <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Stallman stalls again Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20010305123646.00d27e90@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.30.0103060456170.18369-100000@student.uq.edu.au > References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010305114235.046da630@localhost>
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At 11:59 AM 3/5/2001, Trent Waddington wrote: >A war of words. A war of legal strategy. A war of corporate politics. >But a war of blood and killing ala Richard III, let's try to keep some >perspective here. I am. The war may be virtual, but in other respects it is as much a "take no prisoners" war as a physical one. > The "balance" you are talking about can also be refered >to as ignorance and self denial. Not true at all. A failure to achieve balance -- and, hence, unnecessary casualties -- will result when people ignorantly follow demagogues into the fray. The Crusades also come to mind as an example of a situation where mass action, incited by the selfish, caused millions of innocents to come to harm. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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