IBM Linux Video, going OT...

JoeHill joehill-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org
Sun Nov 23 17:35:07 UTC 2003


On Sun, 23 Nov 2003 11:56:08 -0500 (EST)
Max Blanco <blanco-S8qYAnHmZTt34ZA5RureAJ4VBq8PJc8F at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> 
> I would have the reader observe that it tends greatly to be that wherever
> collectivized ownership sets in to society, great evils tend to occur.  
> The use of corporative fictions allows individual men to deny any (moral)
> responsibility for their actions.  That has occurred most recently and
> spectacularly with what was once the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

...and now even more recently in the U.S., where "corporative fictions allows
individual men to deny any (moral) responsibility for their actions". Huge
monopolistic conglomerates are now making anything the USSR concocted in terms
of corruption pale by comparison. The corporate masters no longer even bother to
make a secret of their control of the President, and the cronyism is beyond what
us mere mortals can even comprehend.

You need to distinguish between bureaucratic collectivism, like the former USSR
or China or Microsoft <grin>, and the collectivism that characterizes the OSS or
Free Software community. As Keith would point out, I am sure, it is a fine line,
easily crossed given the right circumstances, but an important one nonetheless.

Hence the aphorism: "The price of Liberty is eternal vigilance.".

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