-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Sat, 2 Aug 1997, Steve Schear wrote: [...]
Naturally, rich, indolent technologists tend to favor schemes that will put them in control. :-)
I can't fuly agree. In Europe, both communism and fascism started from the socialists (in fact, the fascist were called National Socialists)
The fascists called themselves Socialists for the same reson that the main pro logging group calls themselfs _The Forest Protection Socity_ as a returorical techneek to sucker peaple. [...]
and both accept the "... idea of a political party which embraces all activities of the individual from the cradle to the grave, which claims to guide his views on everything, and which delights in making all problems questions of party...," F.A. Hayek, The Road to Surfdom.
Replace political party with free market and you get the econmic reationalisum/thatureisum that has chocked socity. The freandly socilisum that both the GNU mannifesto and most of the net works on has no such totalitarian tendencies. - -- Please excuse my spelling as I suffer from agraphia see the url in my header. Never trust a country with more peaple then sheep. ex-net.scum and proud You Say To People "Throw Off Your Chains" And They Make New Chains For Themselves? --Terry Pratchett -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBM+PtKqQK0ynCmdStAQGugAP/Shfhpjw/ZtjegN0doAf79/eUUnNchHk5 Ki6oV8wYnRQPj6t2PTPrWi80RCotkGkG41e9YCAbuO5M3vmIZeHR2Hs8EzvXFSHs 9P0vuX4KwoLDcZpSJtXaDwA9FiuD7iO0xh8Rc0bfsIwzGA81OglQS++oy+VK8mEu QdFS2QhRGfU= =24bD -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----