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Say what you will, but every ingredient for the world RMS has described in "The Right to Read"[1] is by now well in place. "Pragmatic" line of thinking will li
by dvse 15y ago
Say what you will, but every ingredient for the world RMS has described in "The Right to Read"[1] is by now well in place.
"Pragmatic" line of thinking will likely land us in the most restrictive police state in history.
1. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
- davidw 15y ago> the most restrictive police state in history. This is the sort of hyperbole the author was originally arguing against.
- dvse 15y agoDid Himmler have the technology to continuously monitor movements and verbal and written communications of every citizen?
- Legion 15y agoWe also "have the technology" to obliterate the planet many times over. You need a few more facts than just "having the technology" to start inferring things.
- dvse 15y agoYou have it - either obliteration or (as an optimistic scenario) total control enacted with the justification of preventing splinter groups from achieving said obliteration. And while someone should think about these things I do admit that something else might work better to win mind share for the FSF.
- DisposaBoy 15y agoGodwin was right it seems...
- yesbabyyes 15y agoWell, what I think dvse was saying was that pragmatic thinking (only) will lead to such a situation. I.e., we also need unrelenting people who are not pragmatic, who upholds their principles. Like Stallman. That doesn't mean that you have to be Stallman, just that it might be a good strategy to accept people who choose to live as they learn.
- yesbabyyes 15y agoWhen asked his opinion of pragmatism, Morgenbesser replied "It's all very well in theory but it doesn't work in practice." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Morgenbesser http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Morgenbesser