[PD-dev] Re: [PD-announce] Pd-0.38.4-extended-RC7

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Martin Peach wrote:
> Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> > You see, it's normal to have systems sometimes. When there's an evil
> > system somewhere, you shouldn't be worried about the fact that it's a
> > system as much as the fact that it's evil, because, if you do, then the
> > evil system has won, while all the potential good replacements lose.
>
> Hmmm, I think all human systems become more evil with time: the more the
> system becomes established, the more humans work for _it_ and must adapt their
> behaviour to _its_ needs, even when it began as a user-friendly sytem whose
> purpose was to help the people who started it; so all sytems need to be
> thoroughly broken and rebuilt every once in a while before they become too
> despotic, wasteful, counterproductive. Of course systems in most need of
> reform are at the same time the most dangerous to meddle with...

So, linking this back to what we were talking about, I ask you, is the
Free Software Foundation despotic and/or wasteful and/or counterproductive 
and/or in need of getting thoroughly broken and in need of being rebuilt?

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