Subj : Re: GNU Public Licences Revisited (again)
To   : comp.programming
From : Scott Moore
Date : Tue Aug 30 2005 02:54 pm



Serge Skorokhodov (216716244) wrote:
> 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;)
> 

I believe you said "capitalism" (actually, "capilalizm").

Counterargument by change of subject.

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