[oclug] Re: Fwd: Re: Why we have Source code

[Rod Giffin]

On Wednesday 24 January 2001 07:23, David F. Skoll wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Rod Giffin wrote:
> > What I'm saying is that when the general population
> > doesn't know enough about a technology, no matter if it's reading and
> > writing in the middle ages, how to forge iron into a tool or a weapon in
> > the iron age, or how to write software in the information age, they are
> > vunerable to economic repression by those who control the technology of
> > the age.
>
> Really?  You reckon electronics manufacturers are repressing the 95% of the
> population who have no idea how electronic appliances work?

No I don't reckon.  I mentioned electronics manufacturers exactly 0 times and 
did not quote a percentage of people affected by anything, so I'm not exactly 
what you're trying to get at.

Rod.