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Re: [uug] Open Source vs. Closed Source software

Chris Alvarez
Fri, 25 Mar 2005 11:02:12 -0800

> I have heard a limited number of people in Utah make similar comments
> about members of the Democratic Party (that they must be out of their
> minds or bad members of the Church).  I think that those sorts of
> comments are dumb.

Bleh, I think you can be a democrat and be a good member of the LDS
Church. I don't think that anybody is qualified to judge anybody in
those terms. I agree with you, those comments are dumb.

> I completely disagree.  I don't really like the ACLU, but I don't think
> that you have to be "seriously confused about life" to be a member of
> it.  You just have to have different beliefs/priorities, but you don't
> even have to agree with everything they do.

> I think we should take what everyone says with a bucket of salt, but I
> don't think we should single out single people to ignore because of
> organizational affiliations.

Yea, I don't like Richard Stallman or ACLU. Also, you need to consider
that by being a registered member of ACLU and paying dues, you are
actively contributing with funds for things like the Main Street
whack-a-mole, the no internet filtering in public libraries issue, the
"under God" and Pledge of Allegiance war and all those other petty
issues that "oppress" the American public. But OK, I'll take that
back. I will not throw into the open-vs-closed software pot the fact
that Stallman is a member of ACLU. Probably it isn't necessary.


Chris Alvarez

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