Journal gishzida's Journal: A Comment about "Politics for geeks" 4
Superwiz says http://slashdot.org/~superwiz "Politics for geeks: libertarians want govt like Unix and liberals want govt like Windows."
I have to disagree.
Republicans want government like Windows: Non-free. Non-private. Non-Choice. Pro-religon (as long as it's theirs)
Some would say that Liberals want government provided by Pirate Bay: Totally Free at someone else's expense or for those Liberals with Money who want government like MacOSX: pretty with a lower user intelligence threshold.
But I tend to think Liberals want government in a GNU / Free software mold: From each according to their talents, to each according to their needs.
As for Libertarians? Some how I don't see them liking SCO or Novell (The Rock 'Em Sockem Robots of UNIX) I'd say they'd like government Open Source but don't really care too much about the source of the code as long as it does not personally cost them to much (because Libertarianism tends to measure things on the basis of personal wealth and/or personal survival)... Libertarians don't see (or care) about the "ecosystem" as long as it does not interfere with what they consider their "personal freedom".
I have to disagree.
Republicans want government like Windows: Non-free. Non-private. Non-Choice. Pro-religon (as long as it's theirs)
Some would say that Liberals want government provided by Pirate Bay: Totally Free at someone else's expense or for those Liberals with Money who want government like MacOSX: pretty with a lower user intelligence threshold.
But I tend to think Liberals want government in a GNU / Free software mold: From each according to their talents, to each according to their needs.
As for Libertarians? Some how I don't see them liking SCO or Novell (The Rock 'Em Sockem Robots of UNIX) I'd say they'd like government Open Source but don't really care too much about the source of the code as long as it does not personally cost them to much (because Libertarianism tends to measure things on the basis of personal wealth and/or personal survival)... Libertarians don't see (or care) about the "ecosystem" as long as it does not interfere with what they consider their "personal freedom".
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Come now, surely you have more intelligence and civility!
While I am not particularly welcoming of our new Democratic Overlords (who suspiciously have begun to sound just like our previous overlords) at least they call torture what it is.
OTOH, our previous Civil Masters (as Heinlein liked to call them) are unrepentant to the evil they have wrought economically and politically...
Different OS choices (Score:2)
Whereas the OS of the Democratic party is more like Linux