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Re: Has RMS gone off the deep end?

From: aland_-at-_striker.ottawa.on.ca (Alan DeKok)
Date: 2 Feb 1999 15:04:58 -0500
References: <199902021546.KAA09348@striker.ottawa.on.ca>

In article <36B749EB.9BDA41E2@atlsci.com>,
Paul J.Y. Lahaie <pjlahaie@atlsci.com> wrote:
>
>    Rember: RMS is a fool.  He believes that information has no value
> (because it costs pretty much nothing to redistribute).  Information
> has much value.  Information comes at great cost (time, which has a
> cost factor).

  That's an important point, and not one I had thought of before.

>  After all, in your world, there is no privacy unless you don't
> say/do/show it.

  Very true.

>  I think his Orwellian quote is even truer now.

  But it wasn't a quote from Orwell.  The original was:

  War is Peace.
  Freedom is Slavery.
  Ignorance is Strength.


  My comment was on RMS's idea that the restriction of the free
exchange of ideas was a Good Thing:

  Slavery is Freedom.

  The difference between that and the original Orwell quote is
significant.

  Alan DeKok.

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