[GLLUG] War stuff

[Roger Whittaker]

On 18 Mar 2003, Mike Brodbelt wrote:

> The latter seems a sensible course of action; the former is simply a
> matter of courtesy to other users of the list. There are plenty of
> political groups out there for people who wish to organise
> demonstrations - GLLUG members should not take stances on this list on
> political issues other than those (such as copyright) which impinge
> directly upon free software. There's nothing moralistic in that, I also
> have strong opinions on what's currently going on - I just don't think
> that this is the place to air them.

But what does or doesn't impinge is itself debatable.  A world in which
the US government has total political and military power is also a world
in which US commercial interests are more capable of imposing their
trading terms, ideas of copyright, digital rights management etc on the
rest of the world.  And these have all been considered legitimate topics
for the list.

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