Anarchism FAQ?! WTF?...

Michael T. Richter ttmrichter at gmail.com
Wed Feb 14 02:21:48 GMT 2007


On Tue, 2007-13-02 at 15:38 -0500, Eric Dunbar wrote:

> > However, Ubuntu is used by people in regimes where merely possessing
> > or even being able to access information on democracy is dangerous
> > (and, anarchy is the ultimate in local democracy). Is it ethical for
> > the maintainers of a more-or-less formally associated repository to
> > expose users in these situations to political risk?



> I distinguish between political persecutions and intellectual property
> right prosecutions.


What is your point supposed to be here, Eric?  That it's not OK to break
intellectual "property" (an entirely intellectually "bankrupt" piece of
terminology!) but that it is OK to expose Ubuntu users to political
persecution?  Or am I badly misreading you?
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