<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 10:33 AM, Jim Kinney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<a href="http://www.osnews.com/story/25469/Richard_Stallman_Was_Right_All_Along" target="_blank">http://www.osnews.com/story/25469/Richard_Stallman_Was_Right_All_Along</a><br><br>I've thought all along that Stalman was a better barometer of how things need to be than the pundits would give him credit. And yes, it should be called a GNU/Linux system.<br>
<br>the list has been rather dull lately. Time for some lively, er, um, heated discussion :-)<br><br>I would love a totally open, freedom-friendly hardware stack. Stallman sees the hardware stuff of binary blobs and similar ilk as very, very bad for people freedom. I totally agree.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br clear="all">
<br>-- <br>-- <br>James P. Kinney III<br><br>As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to
consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as
they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the
outcome.<br>- <i><i><i><i>2011 Noam Chomsky<br><br><a href="http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/</a><br></i></i></i></i><br>
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<br></blockquote></div><br>I think Stallman is right. Our entire world may be imperiled by the fearmongering powers who believe that dissent is dangerous and must be quashed. If the US Founding Fathers had taken that view, they would never have broken with the crown. They would have knuckled under. All sorts of interesting things are possible right now, while we still have an almost open Internet. Look at the "Arab Spring" events, that are still going on. Look at the OWS events that have spread all over the globe. Even with a corporative news media, refusing to report on many of the occupying efforts, the work is getting done and the word is getting out.<br>
<br>Wolf<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>This Apt Has Super Cow Powers - <a href="http://sourcefreedom.com" target="_blank">http://sourcefreedom.com</a><br>Advancing Libraries Together - <a href="http://LYRASIS.org" target="_blank">http://LYRASIS.org</a><br>
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