Re: KDE v. Gnome

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From: Anders Wegge Jakobsen
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 00:00

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darrow@oneillaw.com (M O'Neill) writes:

> On 11 Oct 1998 11:40:11 -0600, moore.louis@childrens.tchden.org
> (Louis B. Moore) wrote:

 ...
> Hey fella, I agree with your comments as well.  Be careful with your
> attributions.  Don't you think it's possible for a free society to
> meet its humanitarian obligations?  What country takes better care
> of its poor than the US?  China?  Iraq?  N. Korea (ha haha,starving
> its people in order to build nuclear weapons)?

 Just about every european country, with the *possible* exception of
Albania.

> We hardly know what poverty is in this country.  I'm not a right
> winger, I'm not a republican or anything close to it.  I have real
> problems with the accumulation of excess wealth, but those are moral
> problems.  I haven't seen any political system which can deal with
> those problems.  THey can only be dealt with by an educated public.
> You can't save people from themselves.  Educate them, and they might
> be able to make the right decisions though.

 Unfortunately not. If that were the case, then the Soviet Union would
have fared much, much better. The public is what the public is, and is
impossible to change.

-- 
/Wegge

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From: Anders Wegge Jakobsen <wegge@wegge.dk>
Subject: Re: KDE v. Gnome
Date: 1998/10/12
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