Quoting Official Flamer/Cabal NON-Leader, from the post of Sun, 19 Jan:
> I submit that Martin Luther King's idea of equality, Malcolm X's idea of
> equality and John Doe's idea of equality were not the same. I also
> submit that the difference between a black and a white in 'ole south was
> so pr
Vygonets wrote about "Re: A response to Nadav's message":
> > > The most holy of our holidays, Yom Kippur, celebrates
> > > (if one can say that) our freedom to chose our own actions - a freedom that
> > > we are told to excercise thoughtfully and carefully, b
"Nadav Har'El" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Who said ethics was an exact science? :)
If memory serves, ethics was one of Aristotle's "noble sciences," but
then I believe it is not referred to appropriately in this discussion,
since Aristotle's ethics was about acceptable interactions between
*tw
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003, Vadim Vygonets wrote about "Re: A response to Nadav's message":
> > The most holy of our holidays, Yom Kippur, celebrates
> > (if one can say that) our freedom to chose our own actions - a freedom that
> > we are told to excercise thoughtfu
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003, Official Flamer/Cabal NON-Leader wrote about "Re: A response to
Nadav's message":
> First, I submit that freedom and equality are not the same.
>...
> Freedom, in my opinion, was and is (wrongly) equated with equality.
I know they are not the same
Quoth Nadav Har'El on Sun, Jan 19, 2003:
> And I don't have to say that freedom is important in an Israeli list - after
> all we have a major holiday (Pesach) which is all about our becoming free from
> being enslaved at ancient times.
And therefore it's forbidden by law to sell bread in Jewish
ne
Quoth Nadav Har'El:
> I think you misunderstood Richard Stallman's point. He's not saying that
> everybody cares about their freedom, but rather (if I understood him
> correctly) that everybody *should* care about their freedom. In fact, he's
> lamenting the fact that too few people think about th
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003, Official Flamer/Cabal NON-Leader wrote about "Re: A response to
Nadav's message":
> The "problem" (with both RMS's and Nadav's) statements of the conundrum
> is that they (the statements) are rife with ethical judgments. These
>...
Quoth Richard Stallman:
> In fact, I believe that one of the things about the "Open Source" movement
> that scares (or repels) Stallman the most is the fact that is indeed, to
> some degree, a synthesis between the philosophy of free software, and the
> philosophies behind propriet
Stallman gave the example of "Linux" distributions that include
non-free software (such as Netscape and Oracle to use his
examples) and call them value-added software, and objects! To him,
these are "freedom-dereased software", not "value-added software".
I call them "freedom-subtr
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