Re: nettime WMD and the Bush Whitehouse
Henning writes: The current debates about George Bush knowingly presenting fraudulent evidence have been interpreted in some of the better German newspapers as a relatively meaningless issue. Of course the evidence was made up... Well, it's always possible to abandon any question of making democracy work and just enjoy the intellectual spectacle of power politics. There are infinite pleasures there. Real delectations. Particularly if you are waiting for the revolution you can help pass the time by exploring Fate. I suppose this is also a good way to help choose your newspapers. The good ones present the objective truth: that presidents have become emperors or kings and it's interesting to see how they do it. Actually it's always been that way. Everything is for the worst in the only possible world. Get in the habit of saying goodnight at 7 A.M. It's a way of adjusting. It will take a very long time before you actually have to participate. But by then, adaptation will have occurred. It was always that way. Doctors will write a prescription. Science will create a justification. Malthus will find a successor. Progress isn't dead! Check out the good news in some of the better German newspapers! Tomorrow is now! Enjoy it while it lasts! Brian # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and info nettime-l in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nettime Update: Linux strikes back... III
Hi, On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, . __ . wrote: Sometimes one can find things on findlaw. I think that the attack against Open Source must be dealt with in an exemplary way so that other companies do not even dream of repeating this farce... I am not completely convinced about this. First of all, why should I defend IBM? Because it is part of the good and against evil ? They invented the PC but the clever Bill Gates got the money, chapeau, however bad his OS is today. Dos was not unix but it worked. Copyleft etc is fine, Caldera and Linux etcpp, but besides that, it is possible that the old contracts between IBM and SCO are more special. This is about pacta sunt servanda, a completely different story. So it seems that the only question in this case is whether IBM could terminate those contracts, nothing more. And I dont care much about this. Not everything with the label linux is about that freedom that we like. IBMs freedom is not mine. H. # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and info nettime-l in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
