[SGVLUG] any android tablet made in a democratic country

[John Wang]

Churchill can put it more elegantly than I can,

"Many forms of Government have been tried and will be tried in this world of sin 
and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has 
been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other 
forms that have been tried from time to time."    
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill

I am more of libertarian these days. . . though I am rethinking the wisdom of an 
unregulated market. . . , so I feel the political squeeze from both the left and 
the right, aka tyranny of the majority.

I think that if democracy is freedom, equality, and justice under the law, then 
it should be consider ethical.  


Relating it to OS choices, I think of Linux as a democracy.  It's not perfect, 
sometimes painful, but we pursue it at all cost.     I think of Mac as a form of 
authoritarian capitalism, sort of like happy serfdom, it looks pretty, works 
great, just don't ask any questions.     MS is a form of totalitarianism, an 
unhappy serfdom, doesn't matter how it looks or works, don't even think about 
asking questions, 


I use all three.  MS at work, Mac at home, Linux on my personal laptop. . . . 

John

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From: John E. Kreznar <jek at ininx.com>
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Sent: Tue, March 1, 2011 4:49:52 PM
Subject: Re: [SGVLUG] any android tablet made in a democratic country

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Hats off to all who weigh the moral implications of their decisions!

Question, please, whether political "democracy" (aka tyranny of the
majority) can be considered "moral".

(But we veer off topic.)

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John E. Kreznar jek at ininx.com 9F1148454619A5F08550 705961A47CC541AFEF13
             A secret ballot knows no shame.

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