GNU-Darwin: Three Years of Free Software Activism

JigSaw writes "The GNU-Darwin Distribution is a free BSD operating system and a popular source of free software for Mac OS X and Darwin-x86 users, but it is also a platform for digital activism. Founder Michael L. Love wrote an editorial speaking about the roots, goals, problems and just about everything about GNU-Darwin. Free Software is at the core of GNU-Darwin and also anything political that has an impact on digital and even rights. Is this the first truly politically oriented BSD OS?" Nope.

Comments

MOD PARENT UP!!!!!!

[NaCh0]

It's times like these when I need points.

Re:Not quite "fair" politically.

[Pave Low]

Being against war isn't a right-left thing. It's a humanity thing.

Where was the humanity in living under the boot of Saddam's regime? Where's the humanity in North Korea?

Being against all war can equate to being against humanity.

Freedom isn't free.

Re:Not quite "fair" politically.

[WiseWeasel]

Wow, I feel very sorry for your students. Stick the the curriculum, buddy! There were many mass graves found in Serbia and Bosnia, and the "presumed war criminal" was the object of massive evidence displaying his guilt beyond a doubt of terrific attrocities. Maybe if you would leave the partisan BS behind, and achnowledge the character and intentions of our leaders, you could convey a more realistic World view to your students. The war in Iraq was started based on trumped up charges of WMD posession and acquisition, which have turned out to be based on shaky intelligence at best, and an outright lie at worst. We aren't in Iraq to liberate the subjects of a brutal dictator, but to secure access to their resources (hint: powers your car) with a friendly regime. In Bosnia/Serbia, there was no oil to fight over, and with the mix of cultures with ties to different major World powers (and was the site of events that triggered both World Wars), was a messy place to be involved in. In hindsite, there was no greedy goal for that war, besides possibly to allocate funds to the defense department and its contractors (though that is the extremely cynical view). In Iraq, however, with the dubious charges made to start the war, the timing of the war (in a recession, with oil prices on the rise, with Saddam was doing his thing as usual, as he has been for the last decade since the first Gulf War), and the way the country (Iraq, not the US) has been managed since the end of the war (all contracts going to a select group of powerful American companies who just happen to have contributed massive amounts of money to Bush's election fund, no real care given to the well-being of Iraqi citizens, money from Oil sales to ourselves going to pay for our expenditures there), it is easy to say that the motivation was not very honorable. Have you considered teaching history in North Korea, where all history is fabricated on a (politically motivated) whim, like yours?