oops, On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 08:03:30PM -0800, Carol Spears wrote: > > by a group that was supposed to be all for freedom (it was anti-music or > anti-copyright, iirc). shame on these people for this. it is like that > anti-music industry is what i meant.
music industry is an oxymoron also. i spent some time thinking about this email before it came back with that serious flaw in it. i didn't like DOS from the very beginning so long ago. i got locked out of all sorts of job opportunities and who knows whatelse because i knew that computers could and should run better than that. then i get involved with this gnu/linux stuff because of this overwhelming feeling that information should be free and available for everyone that i have. a few years later, you start to see things out of the "corner of your eye" that makes you think that you fight for a system that keeps information from you. i do know that it is not very much like the American Way i was taught to constantly ensure that only a couple of companies dictate how a whole country is run. this is what i was trying to do when i started to use and advocate gimp. in a country where there is supposed to be fair competetion between companies, it is wrong that one company dictate how one whole industry works. Microsoft and Adobe are about as much a dictatorship as any i have read about, when looking for an evil dictator to bring down, i guess they should look at home first. sorry to get all political; since i did, is there any word from the Ximian people you work with whether or not there will be a configurable file selector in the near future? very near would be really nice and once again, i could dictate how linux works for me and not be dictated by how macintosh thinks i should work .... carol _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
