[Buddha-l] chavez the autocrat?

[curt]

Richard Hayes wrote:
> On Wednesday 10 January 2007 13:37, curt wrote:
>
>   
>> Once again Richard Hayes is caught red handed carrying water for the
>> right-wing media establishment and the Bush Administration!
>>     
>
> Once again Richard Hayes is too slow-witted to follow the subtle "reasoning" 
> of Dr. Steinmetz. Having read the article he kindly brings to our attention, 
> I see no connection whatsoever to anything I have said on any topic. But 
> never mind. This topic of one of my cultural heroes, Hugo Chavez, has 
> absolutely no connection to Buddhism and has no place on buddha-l anyway. 
>
> So unless you can tie Hugo Chavez in with Linux somehow, I'd drop this one, 
> Dr. Steinmetz.
>   

Can I tie Chavez in with Linux? Does the Pope sh*t in the woods?

http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=16647&ch=infotech

"President Hugo Chavez has long been critical of big transnational 
companies, and now his government is promoting free open-source software 
as an alternative to market-dominating Microsoft Corp.

Venezuela's science and technology ministry on Friday began the Latin 
American Free Software Installation Fair, an event promoting the use of 
the open-source Linux operating system and other nonproprietary programs 
over Windows by Microsoft."

- Curt