[Fsfe-uk] Re: Stalls at Marxism 2003

[North London John]

[Resend - apologies to Chris to whom I inadvertantly sent this to 
directly]

On Monday, May 19, 2003, at 09:09  am, Chris Croughton wrote:

> On Sun, May 18, 2003 at 08:45:03PM +0100, Alex Hudson wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 2003-05-17 at 14:22, Chris Croughton wrote:
> > > Please note that many of us who are supporters of free software are
> > > /not/ anti-capitalist nor against 'globalisation' (at least some
> > > definitions of it, it's a term which tends to be defined differently 
> > > by
> > > everyone who uses the term).

*Sigh* I'm well aware of that.

(Alex:)
> > I'm not sure he was necessarily saying that, more the other way 
> > around -
> > that it's likely that 'those types' would be inclined to be supportive
> > of Free Software, rather than that supporting Free Software makes you
> > more likely to be 'one of them'.

Thank you, that was exactly my point.

(Chris:)
> I'll accept that it was not intended that way, but I think the Free
> Software Movement has to be careful in associating itself with 
> extremist
> groups of any sort, or at least to keep a balance between them.

And it would be plain bizarre for the Free Software Movement to turn 
its back upon those - like Indymedia - who actually write, release and 
use Free software.

John Levin