Re: [libreplanet-discuss] libreplanet-discuss Digest, Vol 113, Issue 15

[fudmier]

Forcing human rights and democracy first Icon Stallman to resign..seems to
suggest a bigger plan with roots in a design that has as its object to 
deny to the
world the open source developer invented products and instructional 
expertise.
Becoming an expert "by doing" is far better and cheaper then allowing 
oneself to
be victimized by educational systems that obligate one to incur a 
lifetime of debt
just to obtain credentials from a major monopoly powered accreditation 
source.

Keeping developers with expertise outside of the monopoly owned 
mainstream is
an essential component of a democratic society.?? Nearly every 
curtailment of
democracy in recent times, can be traced to the effort of a monopoly 
powered
global corporation.???? Let us not forget that copyrights, patents and 
privatization
of public goods and services into private hands skews the distribution 
of wealth
(because of these monopolies, 100 persons or so have the net worth of 
the rest
of the population) and that skew allows them to restrain competition and
deny open access.


The danger is that monopolist can destroy free, open and full access to 
information
and they can deny/gate for money access to expertise and interactive 
learning experiences

Walling information, charging for access to experience and training seem to
tract to the domestic and foreign intelligence agencies who use the 
monopoly powered
private purveyors of propaganda to assist them in curtailing freedom and 
democracy.

Gee, what will we do without Richard Stallman?

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>     1. Re: Is Stallman nuts? (Adrienne G. Thompson)
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> From: "Adrienne G. Thompson" <adriennegayethompson@gmail.com>
> To: quiliro@riseup.net
> Cc: MARY-ANNE WOLF <mgwmgw@comcast.net>,  libreplanet-discuss
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> Subject: Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Is Stallman nuts?
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> Quiliro, I see you're at riseup.net!
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> > Your message has made Richard Stallman, an icon to human rights, resign as
> > president of the board of directors and as president of the FSF.
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> > As for me, I will stop preferring women for positions on free software
> > technical areas. I think that they will earn them if they deserve such
> > positions.
> Affirmative action is a noble concept, but sometimes adopting the policy
> just doesn't make sense. You always need the very best for technical
> positions - which should accordingly be earned on merit. I doubt that I
> will be "preferring women" for technical positions at GNU C-Graph!
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> This whole business smells like a set-up. I've noted the number of people
> who rushed to distance themselves from rms, some of whom he might once have
> considered friends. RMS will rise again in the blink of an eye!
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> *You may write me down in historyWith your bitter, twisted lies,You may
> trod me in the very dirtBut still, like dust, I'll rise.You may shoot me
> with your words,You may cut me with your eyes,You may kill me with your
> hatefulness,But still, like air, I???ll rise.Just like moons and like
> suns,With the certainty of tides,Just like hopes springing high,Still I'll
> rise.*
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> >From "Still I Rise" by Maya Angelou
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> Adrienne G. Thompson
> Author and Inventor, GNU C-Graph
> She/Her