On Sat, 13 Jul 2013 20:15:24 -0700, Snit wrote: > >> Through the years, I warned people on Usenet and IRC (especially >> Freenode) about NSA code in Linux and they told me "Living Standard" >> was a MAFIAA coup waiting to happen. They said "You're crazy", "it's >> impossible", "You're paranoid", "Don't use the Internet at all!", etc. >> Now look what their gullibility and blind trust of government spooks >> and multinational corporations got us! > > Corporations will gain more and more power - and governments will bow > down to them more and more.
The problem here is not government or corporations. It's individuals trusting organizations, corporation or nonprofit, free and nonfree, no matter what they do, who they associate with, or what kind of reputation they have. (Again note I made a mistake, "they told me "Living Standard" was a MAFIAA coup waiting to happen." should instead be "I told them...") -- Red Blade http://www.libertycolumns.com/ http://www.danq.co/ http://www.twitter.co/danqco/ _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
