I do see GNU, Linux, and all those great projects that share the same vision (read license, although there may be some differences) has a great gift given to the world. The ability of having an operating system full of applications that are indeed ours, in which we can modify, distribute and learn with them, are one of the most precious things a human being can have, as precious as the whole knowledge brought to our days by all those books written before our times.

Wouldn't the world be perfect if all the software produced were GNU GPL (or under a similar license)? Wouldn't it be great for the development of men kind, since we would have all the great enterprises focusing all their attention in a free (as 0 cost) and free (as a seagull) operating system that the whole world could afford? The companies would be making money out of services related to software, so the software itself would be 0 cost, and everyone could have in their home everything, regardless of the amount on the bank account. It would be great.

But I spoke above in the knowledge brought by books to these days. Wouldn't it be also great if all those books were also available to all? If someone needed a book to improve his knowledge in some subject and could have it straight away? Some call it communism, but it would be more like a perfect society, for everyone could have direct access to knowledge, the poor wouldn't have to be dumb, they would have the choice, like the rich, to choose between being dumb and being smart. And the world would develop twice, third times, or who knows, faster.

But do the books are free? Do we have the permission to learn all we want without committing crimes? No, we haven't.

Society is build under the logic of money. Those who don't have it can't equal those who have in opportunities. So, the analogy here is that the world of software today is like our own society. If you want to learn, you pay, but you have libraries, where indeed you can learn a lot, depending of the quality of the one nearby. Software also has to be paid for (if you don't want to commit crimes), but you have GNU, Linux and many other Free Software, which can be great and may fit all your needs, but may also don't.

The world would be great if everything we needed to develop it were free of charge, or at lest gave us the freedom to use it and know anybody else could use, and no one was left behind.

But the world won't change, and this is nothing but a great Utopia.

So what is the midterm? What should we be seeking for our society? In my opinion, the best is where lies the liberty, liberty for everyone to use what it likes, but having always in mind that some technologies, although great inside our four walls, may be incompatible with others, and none should support them, because solidarity is also needed.

But how can you ask people to boycott great technologies that work in their environment just because some guys can't use them? Does the world care if the technologies it uses are also enslaving it? Men kind can nearly extinguish itself by using technologies that seem to be positive in the way we analyze them but are also destroying us, and we're asking them to don't use something which is completely positive just because some say it's not? Who will care?

Who cares?

If you ever wondered about the extinction of the dinosaurs this post won't have an answer to you. But at least, we now know how some of them extinguished, they simply were unable to fit on Noah's Ark!

All this time racking my brain and the answer was so, so simple!

 

Of course this is some pretty ironic post, but can you believe in that image? It's very real, from the Creation Museum, one of those museums that gives you the whole absolute truth.

No contradictions...

...i didn't know that one of those underlying facts of Bible was that once dinos coexisted with Humans...

...no lies...

 

...the poor Amphicoelias was not overly large! I wonder whether Queen Mary II would be able to host a family of those...probably Noah left them to die, but wait, they were already fossils by that time....wait, but did Noah really exist?...

...just brain washing for a happy life in the Almighty's protection from those whose logic is right but so vicious.
If they just assume Bible has a metaphor the whole world would be some much better, but America mainly.

 

It still amazes me how every candidate to the White House has to publicly declare is faith in God just to get American's blessing. This pseudo-moral mask will actually bring them votes from those who blindly believe that one from the same religion (or religious) have integrity guarantee.

 

Well, I think I'm just tired of so much massive killing and lies under "God Bless Us"... I'm sure He will.

 

P.S.: If you want to read more about the subject this article will be a good reading: 

What Religion's Blind Stranglehold on America Is Doing to Our Democracy

I'd say a lot. Besides their effort of looking a developed country with the Olympics, China is, no doubt about it, a coal based developed country wannabe, a betrayed communist country that knew how to join the bad of capitalism: a development based on ferocious producing of products with no quality and concerns at all, even when all that producing makes the capital look like a constant chimney, with the usual of communism when put in practice: just no human rights at all, fear and oppression.

But don't get me wrong, I'm not some kind of racist, and the poor people of China don't have the fault on the government they have, which they can not express about.

All this about a news in Telegraph.co.uk that reported a 9 nine months old (!!!) pregnant woman that was forced to have an abortion by the abortion police in China (which appears to regulate the population growth), just because she had pregnant before her marriage.  Her waters had already broken... and she is now infertile.

I'm not saying that China is the only country where humans rights have no value, Muslim countries are quite similar, but at least we can excuse them because of their religion, but China? What kind of dogmatic blindness makes them do such things?