Re: Questions

[Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM>]

On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Richard Stallman wrote:

>     We need to keep chipping away at the dam, not painting slogans on it.
> 
> Painting slogans doesn't affect the dam directly, but it is the way to
> convince more people to attack it.  Indirectly, it does a vital job.
> 
> To succeed, we have to do both.  If all we did were talk about
> political issues and not write software, we would get nowhere.  But if
> we did not talk about political issues, we would lose track of the
> goal--we would get somewhere, but not there.
> 

What if there isn't a 'political goal'? In that case we would not arrive
at 'there' but 'pseudo-there' which might not resemble the place we wanted
to go to at all. Thus the existence of the political goal shoul dfirst be
firmly established.

	Sander

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