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From: Toby Thain <toby@tel...>
Subject: Re: [9fans] The Cathedral and the Bazaar
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 17:54:10 +1000

forsyth@cal... wrote:
> 
> i thought we were an autonomous collective!

You're fooling yourself. We're living in a dictatorship.

Toby

"I'm 37. Not old." -- The other Dennis

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> Subject: Re: [9fans] The Cathedral and the Bazaar
> Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 15:33:37 -0500
> From: dmr@pla...
> Reply-To: 9fans@cse...
> To: 9fans@cse...
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>  > ... the capital raised to build the York Minster and 40 some other
>  > churches in old York was extorted from wealthy landowners and the
>  > peasants (pay or go to hell).  I think this better fits the model
> 
> So, in present-day York is VN playing the role of the Church,
> the wealth landowners, or the peasants?
> 
>         Dennis