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Re: [News] July 4th Reminds of Freedom Advantage of GNU/Linux

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____/ Homer on Sunday 12 July 2009 20:26 : \____

> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
> 
>> Freedom is Not Embarrassing
> 
> Yes, it's deeply ironic that the most dedicated American nationalists
> are invariably those who show the most contempt for the principles of
> Freedom they pretend to live by. One would have assumed that American
> patriots, of all people, would embrace the goals of Free Software. On
> the contrary, they expose American nationalism for what it really is,
> a megalomaniacal quest for power, and an insatiable lust for hoarding
> material things like money, with wild abandon that transcends apathy,
> but seems to actually derive an evil pleasure from inflicting as much
> suffering, deprivation, and subjugation on others as possible. Indeed
> this is the yardstick by which American patriots measure "success".
> 
> Is this the kind of "Freedom" the Founding Fathers had in mind - the
> "Freedom" to do evil?
> 
> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/freedom-or-power.html

See the flag in the FP of Slallman.org. Read what it says.

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