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OpenBSD Foundation Announced
OpenBDSfan writes "KernelTrap is reporting on the creation of the OpenBSD Foundation, a Canadian not-for-profit corporation intended to support OpenBSD and related projects, including OpenSSH, OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD, and OpenCVS. The announcement explains, "the OpenBSD Foundation will initially concentrate on facilitating larger donations of equipment, funds, documentation and resources. Small scale donations should continue to be submitted through the existing mechanisms.""
i read 'asconced'. which reminded me of drinking a yard of ale at ocford university. though i can't imagine theo being against that.
on one of those five finger keyboards? I believe you need all five fingers to make the work, right? Maybe he lost a couple to an angry sea bass.
Word. Go back to your old keyboard. You only need one finger to work it.
What?
spelling at slashdot is dying.
Most governments are actually pretty good systems, and in theory they work, the reason countries got ruined by communism was corruption, a less corrupt system would have succeeded, and I think we'll soon find countries like Afganistan abusing democracy to become a theocracy and it'll be just as bad.
Godwined already...
I very much doubt that. I suspect that what your country was in the shadow of was Stalinism. Just because the nice American man said you were living under communism doesn't mean anything as Americans generally can not tell the difference between Communism, Stalinism, and Socialism (and assume they're all Stalinism).
Communism, like capitalism, is based on a model of the world which only works if everyone acts in exactly the way the inventor of the model thought they should. Neither work in reality; both need socialist elements to prevent them turning into a nightmare for all but the top 500 or so people in a country.
TWW
"Encyclopedia" is to "Wikipedia" what "Library" is to "Some people at a bus stop"
Article says "non-profit", summary says "not-for-profit". Geez OpenBSDfan, what's wrong with the term "non-profit" ?
"Not-for-profit" only started being used when Americans started hating the French for not joining them at the beginning of the war with Iraq, for the exact same reason people starting renaming everything "freedom", like "freedom fries" et al. During that period at the beginning of the war, all I could think about was the Statue de la Liberté. Think about it.
It's nothing personal, I'm just venting because the term "not-for-profit" gets on my nerves, it's longer, awkward, and it came into being because of patriotic bigots who wanted to remove all things French with the mot du jour (freedom).
Disclaimer: I'm French Canadian, which may explain why I hate the unnecessary change, because it has unfortunately crossed the borders and begun getting used by some Canadians.
how is babby formed?
The reason Soviet-Socialist-Planned-Economy (they were NOT communist) countries got ruined by corruption was because that system had no resistance to corruption whatsoever. It was too easy to steal from companies, collective farms, factories, etc because they all belonged to the government, so nobody really cared. Stealing from government was not considered a bad thing by the people.
And the leading caste- Communist Party only wanted good living for themselves, didn't care about much else.
Democracy is also flawed system, but it kind of worked until corporations and corporation controlled media weren't that much powerful. I'm not sure we can say it still works as it supposed to now. It works in some countries, but these are few.
The real challenge is designing a system that works with ignorant people, greedy/powerful corporations and stupid/corrupt politicians. I spent quite enough time thinking about it, and came up with nothing. If you have any ideas on the subject, I'd be very interested to hear them. The closest I came up with was educating people, restricting corporations, restricting mass media/marketing, very strict laws on monopolies to preserve free market and special controls on government officials. But this approach would require some very heavy handed government to be implemented.
--Coder
Yawn ... FoSS isn't about denial of private property, nor is it about distribution of wealth. It is about distributing certain source code under a certain license.
I'm not aware of any country where communistic ideas "got twisted" in the sense of turning a communist state into a totalitarian one. What seems always to have happened is that - like in Animal Farm - the country was simply physically taken over by thugs who used communist words and phrases to to make the masses think - or rationalise - that they were living in a communists state. I'm not saying communism would work if people would only give it a chance - it wouldn't - but I'm not sure that anyone [i]has[/i] ever given it a chance.
In fact, such a state was never set up beyond a few streets around the original revolutionaries' headquarters, if even that. In a similar way, for example, the American Dream is used to lull Americans into thinking they live in a free, fair, and generally equal society when in fact they live in a class-riddled nation ruled by an aristocracy. The Dream exists simply to prevent people asking questions, just as quotes from Das Capital served to keep victims of Stalin quiet.
As for why you've been moderated a Troll: you made a generalisation without basis and which showed a gross lack of understanding of the legal framework involved or the history of the subject. Additionally, you did it on a forum where any normal person would know that such remarks would provoke people. That's trolling.
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