On 20 May 96 at 4:07, Dave Harman wrote:
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! >Dave Harman writes: ! > ! > CAPITALISTS' SUCK ! ! What witty social commentary.
Information wants to be free.
Information doesn't want to be free (or anything else) anymore than the stapler on my desk wants to be free.
The day that abstract qualities like "information" or "color" have desires would be an interesting day indeed.
Nonsense. Mathematics wants to be rational. Symmetry wants to be self-similar. Memes want to be free. -- "Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies, The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." - C.S. Lewis, _God in the Dock_ +---------------------+--------------------+----------------------------------+ |Julian Assange RSO | PO Box 2031 BARKER | Secret Analytic Guy Union | |proff@suburbia.net | VIC 3122 AUSTRALIA | finger for PGP key hash ID = | |proff@gnu.ai.mit.edu | FAX +61-3-98199066 | 0619737CCC143F6DEA73E27378933690 | +---------------------+--------------------+----------------------------------+