Yet both the PLO and IRA are overwhelmingly considered "terrorists" by the general public. While that may work for their goals, in order to beat these masters of propaganda we NEED the public on our side. In a no-holds-barred fight, the odds are hugely in Goliath's favor. That's why this must remain a cold war for now; we have to find their weak spots and let them sufficiently embarrass themselves first (which they seem to be doing a pretty good job doing right now). The nice thing about fighting a Goliath is that if you're fast enough they have a tendency to step all over their own toes.
Remember that the founding fathers of the US are considered heroes only because they won. To the establishment of the time they were just some more rebel scum to be eliminated. But the difference is that they had at least the passive support of a large segment of the population in the territories they were fighting for.
Now, I'm not against a little revolution now and then if it's absolutely necessary. In fact, the in the writings of John Locke and company, who laid out some of the principles the American revolution was fought on, asserted that people who are living under an oppressive government have not only a right but a DUTY to change it through whatever means necessary, including overthrow. My point is that I don't think we're at that stage yet. There are still other options that may swing the balance. And you're wrong, the founding fathers didn't just pick up guns and start shooting. They held rallies and spread public awareness about the situation; wrote letters and tried to reason with the King, etc. Only when all of that failed did they resort to force.
At the risk of feeding a troll, I fell I must disagree with this post... Fighting "fire with fire", as it were, might serve to release anger and make us all feel better but wouldn't actually accomplish anything. Defacing web sites would do nothing more than reinforce the negative propaganda that is being spread and cause even more persecution against us.
No, the only way we can get out of this is to take the moral high ground and at least show the world that we're not what we are being painted as. I'm not saying that it will be easy, but in the end we WILL prevail for one reason -- we have the truth on our side. We must fight the likes of the MPAA with our one weapon; we must show the public the truth behind the curtain. We must try and make people understand why these Bad Things will come back to haunt them if they let it slip by...
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Perhaps they are not aware that it is open source because they bought it in a box...?
Check it out: http://www.netcraft.com/whats/?host=www.dvdcca.org reports running Apache/1.3.3 (Unix) PHP/3.0.5 on BSD/OS.
For the BSD-uninformed, BSD/OS is one of the few non-free BSD splits, distributed with Apache in a package called BSDi (BSD Internet Server)... It still doesn't change the fact that Apache is Open Source, though.
Troll?! I thought it was a rather clever since the post was linking to something that hadn't been posted yet... What crack are the moderators on this week? And where can I get some?;)
Slashdot Mirror
Ummmmmmmmm, yeah... And let's call these hypothetical Open Source projects Linux, BSD, Mozilla, etc...
Isn't StarOffice going GPL soon if not already?
:)
I'm making this available on Napster as "Metallica - DeCSS.mp3"
Yet both the PLO and IRA are overwhelmingly considered "terrorists" by the general public. While that may work for their goals, in order to beat these masters of propaganda we NEED the public on our side. In a no-holds-barred fight, the odds are hugely in Goliath's favor. That's why this must remain a cold war for now; we have to find their weak spots and let them sufficiently embarrass themselves first (which they seem to be doing a pretty good job doing right now). The nice thing about fighting a Goliath is that if you're fast enough they have a tendency to step all over their own toes.
Remember that the founding fathers of the US are considered heroes only because they won. To the establishment of the time they were just some more rebel scum to be eliminated. But the difference is that they had at least the passive support of a large segment of the population in the territories they were fighting for.
Now, I'm not against a little revolution now and then if it's absolutely necessary. In fact, the in the writings of John Locke and company, who laid out some of the principles the American revolution was fought on, asserted that people who are living under an oppressive government have not only a right but a DUTY to change it through whatever means necessary, including overthrow. My point is that I don't think we're at that stage yet. There are still other options that may swing the balance. And you're wrong, the founding fathers didn't just pick up guns and start shooting. They held rallies and spread public awareness about the situation; wrote letters and tried to reason with the King, etc. Only when all of that failed did they resort to force.
At the risk of feeding a troll, I fell I must disagree with this post... Fighting "fire with fire", as it were, might serve to release anger and make us all feel better but wouldn't actually accomplish anything. Defacing web sites would do nothing more than reinforce the negative propaganda that is being spread and cause even more persecution against us.
No, the only way we can get out of this is to take the moral high ground and at least show the world that we're not what we are being painted as. I'm not saying that it will be easy, but in the end we WILL prevail for one reason -- we have the truth on our side. We must fight the likes of the MPAA with our one weapon; we must show the public the truth behind the curtain. We must try and make people understand why these Bad Things will come back to haunt them if they let it slip by...
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Perhaps they are not aware that it is open source because they bought it in a box...?
g reports running Apache/1.3.3 (Unix) PHP/3.0.5 on BSD/OS.
Check it out: http://www.netcraft.com/whats/?host=www.dvdcca.or
For the BSD-uninformed, BSD/OS is one of the few non-free BSD splits, distributed with Apache in a package called BSDi (BSD Internet Server)... It still doesn't change the fact that Apache is Open Source, though.
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Troll?! I thought it was a rather clever since the post was linking to something that hadn't been posted yet... What crack are the moderators on this week? And where can I get some? ;)
Ummmmmm, Doom maybe...? There's a ton of other games that used it too. Just look for DOS4GW.EXE or whatever the Watcom DPMI thingy was called.
;)
Of course by the time they got around to making Quake they used DJGPP (the DOS port of gcc