[LUG] Rackspace bends over for Feds - so much for linux principles?

["M.Blackmore" <mblackmore@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sent: Friday, October 08, 2004 10:58 AM
Subject: BREAKING: Indymedia Servers Seized by FBI


BREAKING: Indymedia Servers Seized by FBI
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/100904W.shtml



The comment from the international journalists organisation is that this 
smack of political takedown as intimidation of independent information 
outlets. The context is one of repeated US Govt. shutdowns of 
independent media in the USA.

Rackspace goes on at length to the linux community about its cuddliness. 
Perhaps it ought to be pointed out forcibly to them that being "good 
corporate citizens" in the context of US global empire objectives does 
not equate to being good citizens of a free and democratic society. The 
ideology of linux, free software and indeed open source in its wider 
(and some say more compromised) form is rooted within the freedoms of 
western democracies as painfully (and at best only partially) achieved 
after generations of struggle.



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