Why, those Phoenix Commies...

[irsman@iastate.edu (Ian Schmidt)]

In a recent mailing to members kindly forwarded to me by a cool person who
shall remain nameless, Richard King writes...

>It should not be an elite group like the IRC crew -- ie, the moniker "PHOENIX
>PROJECT" should not be slapped across every ware it produces, but at most, in
>a text file in the shrink, like the GNU general licensing agreement...look,
>the people who are already hackers will stay hackers...we need to get Joe User
>active with the computer...

Hey, cool, guys, did you hear that, we're elite now :)  Holy shit, what a
radical concept we espouse, we want CREDIT FOR OUR OWN HARD WORK.  I don't 
think this will go over too well, this is America after all.

>Sigh. This is really hard to put into words. I think it should exist as
>more of a philosophy...but how do you apply a philosophy to computer use?
>You don't. You know, I think it could best be described as a
>"computerized communism."

Ewwww.  And this will work better than real communism?  I think everyone
except Bill n' Hillary knows by now what happened to _that_. :)

Special extra quote here:

"Live for yourself, there's noone else more worth living for." 
- Peart, "Anthem"

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Ian Schmidt / irsman@iastate.edu / irsman@cs.iastate.edu
"Though we know that time has wings, we're the ones that have to fly" -Peart