[Discuss] Why use Linux?

[markw at mohawksoft.com]

> Somehow this starts sounding like a bad Tom Cruise movie :)

"bad Tom Cruise Movie" is a tautology

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> On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 9:02 AM, Bill Horne <bill at horne.net> wrote:
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>> On 2/12/2014 6:56 AM, js wrote:
>>
>>> one thing you have not mentioned are any back doors put in proprietary
>>> operating systems by the orders of the US government. while it may not
>>> be relevant to many, it is relevant to some people [and i'm talking
>>> about whistle blowers or human rights activists instead of child porn
>>> merchants].
>>>
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>> No offense, but I don't feel one is different from another. As soon as
>> we
>> start to say that /some/ speech is "good" and /some/ speech is not, we
>> lose.
>>
>> After all, a photograph of a naked child lying dead in a ditch at My Lai
>> could be interpreted as  "child porn" - and Robert Mapplethorpe's
>> photographs of partially naked children could be (and was) interpreted
>> as
>> having redeeming social merit.
>>
>> Porn, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder, and the question is if
>> we, as a society, should allow our government to examine what people
>> /might/ say, before they say it.
>>
>> My $0.02. YMMV.
>>
>> Bill
>>
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