[LINK] Fwd: [Announce] Australia takes the Software Freedom record!

Craig Sanders cas at taz.net.au
Wed Sep 6 08:22:10 AEST 2006


On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 06:13:19PM +1000, Deus Ex Machina wrote:
> Kim Holburn [kim at holburn.net] wrote:
> > 
> > So what is your problem with software that is free as in speech?
> 
> nothing other then the fact its become a human shield for communists.

your real problem with it is that you're offended by the blasphemous
fact that a socialist production model is far more efficient than
the capitalist model. according to the blinkered ideology of your
worship-money religion, that is impossible.

> > >http://www.heritage.org/research/features/index/countries.cfm
> > 
> > If you believe Hong Kong (which is a province of the PRC) is freer  
> > than Australia I have a bridge you might like to buy.
> 
> its only one aspect. I dont agree with the factors of the scale or
> the weighing of some of the factors. but it does give you an idea of
> which countries prosperity is more likely to flourish. with government
> expenditure at 56% of gdp there is no way for example I could call
> denmark a free country.

that's because you define freedom by barracking for a side, like any
good little drone unit.

denmark has good health care, good education, good social welfare, great
respect for civil liberties - all hallmarks of a free society.

australia had some of those things, to some degree, but is now heading
down the american path towards a police state that ruthlessly enforces
the interests of the capitalist classes against the interests of the
bulk of the population.

craig

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craig sanders <cas at taz.net.au>           (part time cyborg)



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