[Wolves] Microsoft has submitted the code to the Linux kernel

Stephen Parkes sparkes at westmids.biz
Sat Jul 25 10:59:47 UTC 2009


2009/7/21 Kevanf1 <kevanf1 at gmail.com>:
> 2009/7/21 Re-LoaD <reload at brum2600.net>:
>> http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/262693/hell-freezes-over-as-microsoft-submits-linux-code.html
>>
>>
>
> Wow!!!!!  Now all we need is for Deron Beale to release Freecycle UK
> from the grip of a small number of people in the US and we shall start
> to see even more freedom

Big rant coming up so tune out now if easily offended ;)

I totally ignored the rules when I started the Wolves freecycle
because they are total bollocks.  The idea is anarchist so it makes
sense to let each community police itself and behave in an autominous
fashion.   I left the site to run itself and when I returned it turned
out that the other maintainers had made it so every message needed to
be approved and loads of rules needed to be enforced as if being
forced to use Yahoo wasn't enough.   Fucking bollocks if you ask me
and I know you didn't but it all happened at a particually bad point
in my life and I lost a couple of friends due to them wanting to be
lackys to the heirarchy rather than allowing the community freedom to
run itself.

Things like Freecycle don't need control they should be an example of
anarchy in action but some people have to control everything they are
involved in for their own self esteem and the whole Freecycle system
seems to be run along those lines which is why I'm not even on the
local freecycle lists anymore.

The whole Freecycle thing ephasises the bits of the Free Software
community I have problems with.   Some people do things for others
first and themselves second and don't need their name attached to
things (The late Richard Rothwell was a prime example of doing things
for the right reasons) and others don't have an altrustic bone in
their body and everything is done to further their own name or
careers.

Some of those guys are still good guys even if you have to try hard
not to be pissed off with their decisions sometimes it's not
automatically a bad thing to want to improve your own standing if you
also do good but others seem to be more concerned with their own
standing than the community and the Freecycle hierachy with a page
full of anti competitive and totally unfree rules stuck out as the bad
kind to me.   A good idea turned away from it's natural home by people
who have to try and control.

Sparkes

-- 
Steve 'sparkes' Parkes - blog zx-81.com



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