On Friday 05 September 2003 08.33, Han Boetes wrote: > 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 Well, I like your logic, it is structured like a computer program with no forks. But the philosopher, Georg Henrik von Wright, discussed in his analysis of the word 'idiot', that it did come from old Greece and signified a person that did not speak the greek language. So everything he said was clear nonsence. To day 'idiot' may indicate a person that do things that are of no sence to a viewer. So it is possible to argue that the listener has changed the original logic of the word to a class of activities of a foreigner that has no sence to the listener. Thus my '' around 'communistic' was to signify that in a communistic group it is possible to have a view of 'the other people', as communism is for everyone, and to declare an idea or formula for 'the other people', i.e. to dictate or signify what is best for them.
regards guran -- Mandrake Linux Cooker 9.2, KDE, kernel-2.4.22.4mdk-1-1mdk, Version:20030904 10:22 Only in a society that has 'a priori' defined what is the truth can the result from the evolution of life be defined false.
