Re: Why, those Phoenix Commies...

[jamesb@ecst.csuchico.edu (James L Brookes)]

In article <2ovpci$af0@news.iastate.edu>, Ian Schmidt <irsman@iastate.edu>
wrote:

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

While I generally deplore posting of private email to a newsgroup, I really
don't like it when people slam other people behind their collective backs...
especially when I'm one of the slammed :)

>>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

This is, quite frankly, pathetic.  Considering that the only "GS<>IRC
sanctioned" (heh) things that have been done are a demo and a music disk
(anything I'm forgetting? :) and the constituant members have produced
AudioZap, ModZap, soniqTracker, and much other stuff... I think it's pretty
damn obvious that we don't "slap our names across every 'ware' we produce".
Sorry about the messy sentence but I think I make myself perfectly clear.

>>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

I never thought I'd see the day :(

>>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_. :)

Basically, he's cloning the FSF line.  They've done well, but they have
some extremely dedicated and talented people behind them.

>Ian Schmidt / irsman@iastate.edu / irsman@cs.iastate.edu

PS: Has Mr. King ever written anything himself?  Or is he the 'co-ordinator'
of Phoenix?
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