On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 09:52:22 +0100 Kaj Haulrich disseminated the following:
> > It ain't all bad, a united Europe has more of a chance of > > standing up to this sort of corporate extortion, IMO. > > Well Joe, first and foremost : EUrabia will never be united. On the > contrary, it is decaying rapidly. Exactly like its predecessor, > the Soviet Union. Hey, no argument there. All authoritarian regimes are doomed to failure, according to the SNAFU principle, dare I post it again: http://www.jargon.net/jargonfile/s/SNAFUprinciple.html 'United' doesn't have to mean under the current EU model, though. I meant it in a more general sense. > Thirdly, the present Patent issue is just "delayed", not removed. > No matter what the various parliaments (including the EU > Parliament) decides, the Politburo doesn't care one bit. > Microsoft, Siemens, Nokia etc.. still "owns" the Commissars, the > Eurocrats and politicians. Again, no argument, but it at least shows that there is enough vocal opposition amongst 'the people' to snap some of these autocrats out of their blissful reverie. That in and of itself, you are correct, is not enough though. The best way to defeat authority, in the end, is simply to ignore it. Let MS patent everything they want, the hackers that started this F/OSS thang will, as they always have, simply route around the obstacles, and the users will keep on comin' on over to a better deal. -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 18:43:19 up 45 days, 7:25, 8 users, load average: 1.10, 1.23, 1.27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me." -- Jesus Christ
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