On 11/26/06, R.A. Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com> wrote:
At 8:11 PM -0500 11/26/06, Ulex Europae (yeah, *right*...) wrote:
Oh goody, someone looked that up. I chose that nym carefully, of course it isn't my real name. Why should you think it would be?
Our rights.
:-).
Funniest thing I've heard on this list in years. Exactly how did you get a "right" to someone else's work?
You didn't follow the link and read the rest of the quote, did you? What makes you think I was speaking only of code?
"When the hares made speeches in the assembly and demanded that all should have equality, the lions replied, "Where are your claws and teeth?" -- attributed to Antisthenes in Aristotle, 'Politics', 3.7.2
Yes, and Stalin dismissively asked an advisor how many divisions the Pope had. You aren't really advancing a might-makes-right argument are you? It doesn't always work that way RAH, you ought to know that by now.
It's hard to remember, but cypherpunks write code. Well, most of us do. :-)
Their own code.
You want code, you write it.
Yes, you've advanced that notion before. That sort of penurious antipathy is why encrypted communications as a matter of course will never catch on. Not among the masses where it is most needed. Outside of a few specialized transactions of the financial nature, which is not at all what cypherpunkism is really about. Or at least, what it used to be about. --Ulex