From owner-freebsd-chat Sun May 14 12:56:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA9F437B6F8 for ; Sun, 14 May 2000 12:56:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee) Received: from localhost (narvi@localhost) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id VAA35121; Sun, 14 May 2000 21:55:56 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee) Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 21:55:56 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi To: Juergen Nickelsen Cc: adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 14 May 2000, Juergen Nickelsen wrote: > Arun Sharma 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. > It didn't. And the majority of the area covered still doesn't have free speech. The role of free speech was rather secondary to non-existant, which is to be expected in a society where evrybody is used to getting persecuted for not fitting in, not just unallowed speech. > -- > Juergen Nickelsen > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message