Subj : Re: GNU Public Licences Revisited (again)
To   : comp.programming
From : Serge Skorokhodov (216716244)
Date : Tue Aug 30 2005 11:31 pm

Scott Moore wrote:
> Serge Skorokhodov (216716244) wrote:
> 
>>Gerry Quinn wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>(modulo Serge Skorokhodov's concerns about your
>>>>understanding (and mine own is likely no better) about
>>>>actual freedoms in the USSR under its nominally communist
>>>>rule, I'm just illustrating the emptiness of your statement)
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>What you call "nominal communism" is what you get when
>>>communism is implemented.  Haven't we seen enough mass
>>>slaughter in its name to stop making propaganda for another
>>>attempt?
>>>
>>
>>
>>Have we seen not enough mass slaughter in the name of capitalizm?
>>Come on, pal:)
>>
> 
> 
> Interesting take on history. Between Stallin and Mao, the tally
> for communisim may well exceed 60 million people. That's residents
> of the countries that practiced it. I suspect to get your
> "slaughter" for captialisim, you are defining wars as part of it.
> 
> Oh, I am well aware that many in the FUSSR still are warm to the
> idea of communisim. However, you must realize that we in the west
> have a hard time wrapping our minds around the idea of Russians with
> an affection for a system that killed them off in truly stunning
> numbers.
> 

I do not think that getting into nationality is a strong argument
but if you like it so much... Do you suggest that it would be
smarter if the Russian and the Chinese focuses on other nations
like the Westerners? Anyway, the civil war is our own business.

What about American Indians? Was it Stalin or Mao who slaughter
.... eh ... I may make a mistake here ... more than 160 billions
of them since Columbus' time? Ah, yeah. those were Russian
communists who did it. Together with the Maoists of China;) Or it
was a war? Evil Indians threatened poor peaceful Europe? It's
just the example that first came to my mind. And now, when the
job's done, it's a good time to moralize. But I do not think that
the Westerners are exactly those who should moralize against
slaughtering humans:(

Every nation is approximately as bad as the others, anyway. And I
suspect that we are wrong moving away from software patents and
publicly owned open source software;)

-- 
Serge

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