guran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 05 September 2003 07.32, Han Boetes wrote: > > guran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Personally I think that much of the value of Linux apart from > > > quality is the right to make one owns choices. Otherwise we might > > > be locked into a 'communistic' philosophy, that has decided what > > > is best for us. > > > > That's got nothing to do with communism. You are refering to the > > political models used in the former USSR and China and North Korea. > > By analogy, not all skinheads are nazi's. > > Well, you are entitled to your interpretation. Mine was that in > practice both Lenin and Mao defined what was best for the party, and > that was forced to be the communistic way.
That's a slur. A misuse of the word. You are contributing to a lie. Just like the people from the inquisition called themselves true followers of the beliefs of christ. Or Osama-bin-laden calling himself a true muslims. Communism means sharing instead of claiming ownership. > In that envelope I was trying to say that the idea or finding that a > newbie does not know anything about CLI in a console, does not > necessarily indicate that Mdk should stop them from learning about it. That's communism: sharing knowledge :) You mean authoritarian: http://www.theadvocates.org/quiz.html # Han -- http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/software http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/documents/quotingguide.html
