On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 06:57, guran 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. 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.
You're still making the mistake you made originally, which is to assume that all features of the USSR and China are, ipso facto, features of Communism. To make Han's objection more explicit, just as not all skinheads are fascists, not all Communists are authoritarian. -- adamw
