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Religion exists because of Control, A Good way of contolling people, now Imn no crank, but I its pretty obvious... Religion is the cause of all conflict. Heres someone you should listen to... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dawkins#Religion In January 2006, Dawkins presented a two-part Channel 4 documentary entitled The Root of All Evil?, addressing what he sees as the malignant influence of organised religion in society.
I would have to agree that religion is the root of all evil, it causes people to argue about what happened where whena nd how, and these disgreements eventually cause war.
the philisophical counterparts of these religions is the only things that make them good. as an example, love thy neighbor and brother as you love the lord, treating all in the way you would wish to be treated, the golden rule.. This "Golden Rule" is inherent everywhere, even not in Christianity, the Jewish, the Muslims, the Buddhists, the Baha'i, Everywhere. It is the singular message that people need to love each other to survive in this terrible world and it is the only path to salvation. Who cares who god really is, and once more who cares what he did or what his plan is, nobody makes anything better by going to war, the philosophy of all these great wisdoms say one thing loud and clear, and that is to march forward for a better future through love.
When people fight eachother they forget this, they blindly fire guns at eachother in their hatred for what the enemy did to them yesterday, its a giant war of brothers.
The newish will always hate the Muslim and the Muslim will always hate the Jewish, unless they realize what is truly important, and that is they speak the same wisdoms.
its very hard for either of them to see this as their 'enemies', or shall I say brothers, run into their shoipping malls and kill their people. an endless death cycle.
Theres a serious difference between Open Source GPL/BSD software and Freeware and Shareware out there.
I will educate all on this difference.
Open Source applications arent owned by anyone (at least not in the same sense), thus you hold an equal level of ownership of the code upon downloading as does the creator of that code. Lemme re-iterate that, you become JUST AS MUCH IN OWNERSHIP, as the CREATOR and INITIAL OWNER, of that peice of software. The creator cant take this ownership from you, once it is your it is yours forever. The owner is incapable of transferring the software license of that code, he can only choose to distribute future versions of it undera different license (if it's bsd). GPL is far more restrictive in terms of what can be done to it, it cant ever be closed, and it can never leave GPL.
An open source item is not corruptable, nobody can sneak back doors into them or spyware or adware, because if they did the next skilled programmer would just patch it with their own code removing that adware, he could even start his own fork of that project and he cant be legally touched as he is in just as much ownership of that code. GPL guarantees your ownership, you dont own anything thats under any other license, you just own the license to use it. You never owned windows, you never owned photoshop, or even kazaa or napster or itunes, only licenses to use them. You cant make changes to them, you cant patch them and redistribute your improvements, youd be sued. The GPL and BSD *WELCOMES* and encourages you to change and redistribute and use bits of it in your own projects.
That is what sets apart freeware from openware. It is free in every sense of the word, free as in free speech, and as in free beer.
sorry for the long post, but maybe it will enlighten some, then again maybe it wont
