On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 23:33, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > The more I think about it, the more problem I have with it. I distrust > ideology (managing to respect the notion in the process), and I have > resolved many years ago that I would not be a member of any > organization whose purposes and charter are beyond purely > professional. This is regardless of whether I support the ideology in > question or not. > > Please don't take it as reflecting in any negative way on Hamakor or > its members or their views. I would like to hope that Hamakor could be > an organization of cpmputer professionals that deals with technology, > leaving ideology to "Opinion" pages. I don't think Hamakor should > *explicitly* deal with bringing freedom to the society, noble as the > cause may be. If Hamakor has ideological purposes, I'll have to deal > with the conflict with who I am. I guess I'll have to re-read the > amuta's web site.
Oleg, <Disclaimer>The following is *my* private opinion and mine alone, not any official Amuta stuff.</disclaimer> In that case, I believe membership in Hamakor is not for you. I will explain why: Hamakor is NOT an organization of computer professional. Some of the current members aren't computer proffesional at all and I seriously hope that we will get *more* non proffesionals in the future. Furthermore, while I will not comment on whether we are an "ideological" organization or not (becuase I'm not sure what that means), I do believe that freedom is a good thing in a very practical sense whether this practical sense is expressed in better software OR in a better society. This does not have to mean that we should have a Dogma(tm). I've always tried to not let my ideals keep me from doing the Right Thing(tm) and I don't like a set and fixed rules that says: this is OK, this isn't simply because I think life are simply not that simple. But between this and forgoing the idea that freedom is good altogether there is a long road IMHO. Just my 2cs, Gilad. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
