Why not Linux?

paul sutton zleap-Tp5KeRqLOeNeoWH0uzbU5w at public.gmane.org
Sat Sep 2 22:32:18 UTC 2006


the nice thing about wikipedia is that you can edit the articles, esp if 
anything is incorrect. which can happen,  I am sure the original authors 
of that entry won't mind any corrections, 

paul

James Knott wrote:

>Zbigniew Koziol wrote:
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>>On Saturday 02 September 2006 10:57, Rick Tomaschuk wrote:
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>>>On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 14:05 -0400, Colin McGregor wrote:
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>>>>I have not read Animal Farm I'm afraid, but I do know
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>>>Animal Farm is a satirical allegory of Soviet totalitarianism. Major
>>>events in the book are based on ones from the Soviet Union during the
>>>Stalin era. (From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_farm ...sorry I
>>>don't have Encarta)
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>>Well, wikipedia is certainly either not a fully trustfull source of 
>>information. 
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>>Was 1984 based on Soviet Union? I doubt that. I doubt also that the Animal 
>>Farm was.
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>Animal farm was about communism. "All men are created equal, but some
>are more equal than others.". came from that book.  1984 was more about
>government intrusion into our lives.
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