Is NOT anymore : [Gllug] Stop the War march this Saturday 22nd

[Doug Winter]

On Tue 18 Mar Formi wrote:
> People manage to do it, however I can't imagine being a GPL, BSD
> license supporter without having strong political opinions. The Linux
> and BSDs communities are all about "freedom" that in the software
> world was hijacked by greedy commercial interest, ie "us citizens and
> cos started it", (RMS-Xerox incident and similar).
> 
> So, I guess most people using software released by the above 2
> licenses are against ALL military actions, the rest are unable to see
> the whole picture and notice all wars nowdays are only driven for and
> by economic interesets.
> 
> What would be the point in having a Linux anti-war mailing list?

Some people use Free Software for non-political reasons (for example
it's better and it's free-as-in-beer).   Some people probably choose it
for other practical, economic of social reasons that aren't to do with
their political opinions.  

Certainly on my first encounter with free software I thought it was
completely insane, and only used it because it was cheap (my opinions
have changed somewhat in the intervening years ;).

You can't expect everyone to share your political views just because
they choose the same computing platform.

doug.

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