Re: gEDA-user: Free Dog meetings at MIT starting this September!

[Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com>]

On Aug 21, 2004, at 1:39 PM, Samuel A. Falvo II wrote:
> Not true.  Free software came about in a free society, 1970s era 
> America.
> Free software would never have come about in Taliban Afghanistan,
> Stalinist Russia, or Hitler's Germany.  Absolutely never.
>
> Freedom requires freedom to thrive.
  True.  And the amazing thing is that it's STILL thriving even in an 
Ashcroft-era America.

> No, you'd be brainwashed into thinking Windows XP is the latest, 
> greatest
> thing, and that everyone should be using it.  Just like everyone I used
> to work with at In-N-Out Burger.  "He's some kind of weird geek, 
> because
> he uses LINUX!  HAHAhaha!"  <-- common phrase used to describe me.
  I find that simply not associating with "Windows sheeple" has reduced 
my overall stress level considerably. ;)

          -Dave

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