[Gllug] Handing out flyers this Saturday for the Installfest.

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On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, David Damerell moaned:
> On Friday, 14 Feb 2003, Tethys wrote:
>>Under that system, free software is definitely libertarian, but not
>>particularly leftward or rightward leaning.
> 
> Not at all. The "libertarian" position is actually a properatarian
> one; ie, that property rights are somehow sacred and the sole function
> of government is to protect them.

`Anarchist/archist' are better labels for the division, I'd say, tagging
the degree of control over one's life (as opposed to *service provision*
which is the left-right split) that a government should impose.

(Anarchism, of course, was a leftist thing long before the .us
libertarian fringe took it up, so it can demonstrably survive on both
sides of that political divide and is thus an independent dimension).

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