[plug] Linus approves bombing civilians in stupid war?

[Shayne O'Neill]

I'd love it for linus etc to come out and say what he thinks, keeping and
mind that hes only really a reluctant messiah, and the community has no
ownership over his beliefs. He's entitled to whatever he may think.

He would not be able to , even if he wanted to however, attach knobs to
the usage of linux politically, as the GPL pretty much leaves no
provisions for it and the OSD kinda prohibits it anyway.

Hacktivismo is made for the purpose, and interestingly most political
hackers I know (c at t collective, Tao posse etc) reject hacktivismo as an
itrusion on autonomy.

Shayne.

On Sat, 8 Mar 2003, John Knight wrote:

> Oh please don't start this twaddle, how is it a help to anyone? The most it
> could ever achieve is start an argument on the list and cause someone to
> hate someone that they didn't before. Free software is free software, place
> a restriction on it, it no longer becomes free software.
>
> For Linus to oppose the war and publicly say that he doesn't want the US
> using it would mean that he wouldn't be allowed to be politically neutral on
> the subject. I mean realistically, if he said "I don't want to get
> involved", some idiot is going to call him a supporter of the Americans and
> the war. It's unfair on Linus and as a politically neutral person myself,
> I'd be extremely offended if someone put me in the same position.
>
> Make lunch, not war.
>
> >
> >Hi, all !
> >
> >Is anyone able to get in touch with Linus and ask him if he
> >approves of LINUX being used by the military (U.S. et al) to kill
> >innocent civilians in the war on Iraq?
> >
> >Ask him if he will do the right thing and stand up - P U B L I C L Y -
> >to deny them usage.
> >
> >If you know his eMail address but don't want to ask Linus because
> >you are shy or something then let me know his eMail address.
> >
> >Please; no stupid return email espousing your insanity (and W's)
> >that we have to kill naughty Saddam.  Idiot - in anticipation  (:oz)
> >
> >I have already asked the question about Bill Gates (once) on radio.
> >
> >Please; no flames about "This is just a Linux club for Linux freaks" -
> >-- fuck off, not interested.
> >
> >eMail address please.
> >
> >Regards,
> >wayne
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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