Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario [LWN.net]

Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario

Posted Dec 6, 2005 9:40 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario by NightMonkey
Parent article: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario

As opposed to killfiling people, which is of course still acceptable ;)

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It's a shame that we can't killfile politicians, isn't it?

Posted Dec 7, 2005 4:11 UTC (Wed) by Baylink (guest, #755) [Link] (1 responses)

Though I think that's precisely the point jmorris was making above.

It's a shame that we can't killfile politicians, isn't it?

Posted Dec 8, 2005 11:04 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Sorry, I couldn't see a point in his rantings, which as far as I could understand them struck me as impractical at best; no man is an island and if you try to ban government from some sphere to keep it from growing overweeningly powerful you get overweeningly powerful private actors there instead. I consider them every bit as dangerous...