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> -----Original Message----- |
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> From: felix@×××××××.com [mailto:felix@×××××××.com] |
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> Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 11:34 AM |
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> To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o |
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> Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift - |
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> slaveryware) |
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> On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 04:03:25PM -0700, Bob Young wrote: |
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> > That's almost entirely a theoretical difference, in the real world |
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> > this "freedom" is actually exercised very little if at all. |
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> Almost?!? |
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Yes Almost! |
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> How many people actually use the freedoms guaranteed by the |
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> US constitution? |
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Article 1 - Free exercise of religion: Lots of people every day. |
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Article 2 - Right to keep and bear arms: Regulated, but many many people own |
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guns. |
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Article 12 - Right to vote: True that the percentage of voter turn out isn't |
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as high as it should be, but many people do vote. |
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> For almost all of them, it is a theoretical freedom they never use. |
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Bullshit, You think that people's free exercise of religion is a |
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"theoretical freedom." |
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> Look at the current brouhaha over habeas corpus for |
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> non-citizens, just voted out of existence by Congress and almost |
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> certain to be voided as unconstitutional by the Supreme Court for the |
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> third time. Almost no US citizen will ever be affected by this -- |
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> only two have been affected by it so far -- yet I doubt you'd be |
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> interested in a constitutional amendment to remove it altogether. |
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You'd have a point if open source actually provided some type *real* freedom |
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for *everyone,* but it doesn't, and you don't. Open source has benefits, but |
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claiming that it is somehow on the same plane as constitutional rights is |
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just silly. |
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> Good gosh. "Almost entirely a theoretical difference" -- what a |
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> phrase. |
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A completely valid one in relation to OSS. |
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> I can't believe anyone could utter such nonsense. |
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It's only nonsense if one has some blind allegiance to open source, and is |
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therefore willing to bestow upon it attributes it doesn't actually have. |
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Regards |
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Bob Young |
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