From: Julian Assange <proff@suburbia.net>
Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 05:38:59 +0800
To: qut@netcom.com
Subject: Re: CAPITALISTS' SUCK
In-Reply-To: <199605211245.IAA24492@unix.asb.com>
Message-ID: <199605211519.BAA11670@suburbia.net>
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> On 20 May 96 at 4:07, Dave Harman wrote:
> 
> [..]
> > ! >Dave Harman writes:
> > ! >
> > ! > CAPITALISTS' SUCK
> > ! 
> > ! What witty social commentary.
> > 
> > Information wants to be free.
> 
> Information doesn't want to be free (or anything else) anymore than 
> the stapler on my desk wants to be free.
> 
> The day that abstract qualities like "information" or "color" have 
> desires would be an interesting day indeed.

Nonsense. Mathematics wants to be rational. Symmetry wants to be
self-similar. Memes want to be free.

-- 
"Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely  exercised for the good of its victims  
 may be the most  oppressive.  It may be better to live under  robber barons  
 than  under  omnipotent  moral busybodies,  The robber baron's  cruelty may  
 sometimes sleep,  his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who  
 torment us for own good  will torment us  without end,  for they do so with 
 the approval of their own conscience."    -   C.S. Lewis, _God in the Dock_ 
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