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

[Sean Burlington]

Dermot Moynihan wrote:
> At 09:55 14/02/03, you wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, Richard Cottrill wrote:
>>
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: gllug-admin at linux.co.uk [mailto:gllug-admin at linux.co.uk]On Behalf
>> > Of Colin Murphy

>>         Anti War if memory serves correctly. Perhaps we ought to find 
>> some
>> great item of Open Source software to have come out of Iraq and will not
>> be available if we have a war... (I'm still thinking.......)
> 
> 
> Oh, so that's what it was. Some people could even have taken offence at 
> that.
>
>> Then we might
>> be able to get some of them intrested....
> 
> 
> Nah, they're all fools - out there trying to save people's lives when 
> they could be at home playing with their Linux boxes.
> 
> I suppose that there's a chance that people who are anti-war see the 
> need to change the way the world works and would consequently be very 
> interested in Linux. I'm anti-war and I'll certainly be at Hyde Park 
> tomorrow (after first dropping in at Tott Crt Rd. Must have ones 
> priorities ;)).
> 
> Incidentally, having read a lot of the posts for the past few months I 
> no longer see Linux as being the great anti-capitalist thing I had at 
> first believed. A few months ago, if asked, I would have answered that I 
> would have expected most Linux devotees to be anti-capitalist and 
> anti-war (same thing really) and that I'd probably see them on the 
> march. It's not something I'd expect anymore.
> 
> It seems, at the end of the day to be just a computer Operating System. 
> A great operating system but none the less, an operating system.
> 
> Sad really. Because it still has the potential.
> 


sure Linux is just a part of an operating system
the real hack is the GPL

its not perfect - but the very idea of turning the system against itself 
in that way is just so beautiful :)


see you on saturday (somewhere in amongst the other million people :)

-- 

Sean
(commune dwelling, anarcho liberalist)


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