On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 03:06:04PM +0100, Earl Brannigan wrote:
I'm sick of being held to ransom by the big corporates. But its no suprise. Democracy is a misnomer. Little people don't get heard while the big corporates have more lobbyists than there are MPs MEPs etc to lobby.
What would you suggest instead? Vote anarchy? Rule by benevolent dictator?
Mostly however I will attempt to stay within the land of the 'free', a growing world. So when someone comes along with a proprietary restricive DVD software for Linux I'll say "No Thanks".
Ok, but most people will gladly accept it. I've done a lot of support and bits of random code for the Xine project (a GPL'd mpeg2/dvd player for linux). People just want something that works, lots of people have said that they'd willingly buy LinDVD if/when it ever happens, just to have something that works properly.
In my experience "the masses" want things that work and are willing to pay for them and are more than willing to give up freedoms to get them.