FSFE General Assembly Fellowship Representative Election

[Daniel Pocock]

On 12 April 2017 13:52:54 CEST, Stefan Umit Uygur <ostendali at gmail.com> wrote:
>Sorry to hi-jack the general assembly thread to reply to the article on
>planet.
>
>I personally tend to disagree with any extremist idea and have to say,
>even
>though I'd love to be in the world described in Daniel's article, I
>still
>am for compromises:-)
>
>A world without compromise and tolerance is not different than the
>world
>full of dictatorship or slavery. I know it sounds like a paradox and it
>actually is a paradox. By surrounding yourself with the restrictions
>and
>walls you do nothing but imprison yourself and it is the same with
>proprietary software.
>

I feel that using a word like extremist or dictatorship is a bit strong.

My blog does actually include examples of compromises, otherwise I have simply tried to describe how I personally choose to live and how I feel about that.

Do you feel that everybody who lived a successful life before computers or Facebook were created was an extremist?

Regards,

Daniel