[Kdenlive-devel] [OT] Re: Introduction

[Oceanwatcher]

On Sunday 07 June 2009 14:49:46 Michael Shigorin wrote:
> Just for the record, we don't need no stinkin' democracy :)
>
> And we can "borrow" overpriced software (not speaking for myself,
> never liked that but that's what happens -- original piracy
> targets included pepper which was sold for unjustified price,
> still these days one would make a good laugh hearing about pepper
> piracy I guess; exactly due to it becoming a commodity).
>
> I'm from Ukraine which has been *severely* damaged by this
> unneeded "democracy export"; and I don't hear that what's
> currently happening in the US is anything near people's rule
> but rather the opposite (some tell that looks very much like
> late SU which they knew and left).

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I can agree with you that USA may not be the best example of democracy at the 
moment. Also, my background is not US democracy :-) . 

But I do still believe that democracy is the lesser evil of the governing 
forms we have today... And for this, a truly free press (not more or less free 
and not ruled by the need to sell paper copies) is vital. Actually, we are all 
better off with a free press.

Regarding piracy: Is it not better to use a free version than use a pirated 
version?

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Regards,

Oceanwatcher