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Get outta town you Commi, Pinko, Radical, terori$t!<BR>
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I've got my passport! : P<BR>
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GNU/Linux...and Stallman did finally get a kernel that works with GNU (not Linux) right? Didn't I read something about that recently?<BR>
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(Must go surfing to answer my own question) <BR>
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Going back to lunch now....<BR>
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All Hail Galaxar!<BR>
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On Wed, 2012-01-04 at 11:23 -0500, H P Ladds wrote:
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On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Rich Faulkner <<A HREF="mailto:rfaulkner@34thprs.org">rfaulkner@34thprs.org</A>> wrote:
> Time to stir the pot? Okay, you asked for it... :P
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> I agree with Stallman and; although I do not "exclusively" use FOSS, I do
> weight very, very heavily upon it and use it in all cases where I can (and
> press to convert to FOSS in all cases possible). A hardware equivalent has
> been on my mind too in the past year (if such a thing could exist). (Do to
> the nature of the business we engage in we are forced to support client
> platforms that are usually MS based. In these cases we have turnkey systems
> that provide this and they are usually provided by the client themselves).
> All others are Linux based solutions including our continued evangelism of
> Linux in the desktop realm.
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> We too have seen the writing on the wall with this legislation and
> social/political tides that smell as products of Nazi era propaganda and as
> much as we (my wife and I) would be labeled as radicals; I believe (and have
> found) that our sentiment(s) are more in line with those who live(d) outside
> of the US (in western society) than those who live here. Many (if not all)
> in the Tea Party (here too perhaps) would call us socialists...and that's
> fine with me. The names don't bother me as I know my convictions and answer
> to a higher authority. I am not insinuating that President Obama is
> instituting Nazi-era (totalitarian) legislation; but I will defer to reading
> the implications of recent and proposed legislation for myself. As a matter
> of record we voted for President Obama in 2008 and intend to do so again in
> 2012.
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> As for us, and in the assumed context of terrorism, we are non-belligerents
> and do not support violent revolution or violent action in any form.
> Criminal action such as terrorism is unthinkable as counter to our Christian
> faith; but we remain aware of the daily threats against us that seek to
> conform and control our thoughts and behaviour in a manner consistent with
> the desires of those who seek to continue to exist off-of-us. We know the
> source of that and to that end our faith is well addressed and centered.
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> It is my belief and hope that we will see a reformation of information much
> as we saw a reformation of the church. Just as Martin Luther brought
> information to the masses; will we see a modern visionary who brings to the
> masses truly free knowledge and information? Free software imparts
> potentials for free education and free knowledge. I support this and
> actively participate in this through mentorship and teaching (all for FREE!)
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> It's hard to really get into this when you're at work so will keep this
> short. I think Richard Stallman is spot on. And yes, I too think it should
> be called a GNU/Linux system....
Yea well, "Sez Yous." You probably think that distros include both GNU
and Linux. Get outta town you Commi, Pinko, Radical, terori$t!
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