[CS-FSLUG] Philosophical Debate

[Stephen J. McCracken]

Nathan T. wrote:
> On 11/9/05, Ed Hurst <ehurst at asisaid.com> wrote:
> 
>>Don Parris wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>Who's right? I admit I tend to favor the former. All the more so for
>>>>FreeBSD. This is because I view FOSS through the eyes of faith. I
>>>>understand "narrow is the path" following Jesus, and the logic of that
>>>>suits me. To find that in FOSS is comfortable and comforting. MS Windows
>>>>is an example of what accommodation looks like, in my mind. It results
>>>>in a hellish dependency and ignorance, and much waste of resources.
>>>
>>>This is truly scary, Ed. No, I mean it. Really. You're scaring me
>>>here. I see so many similar parallels between our faith and FOSS it
>>>isn't funny. But you can laugh if you want to! :-)
>>
>>I'm not laughing. I'm quite serious about it. The call of God on my life
>>includes a calling to FOSS, and logic of that is obvious.
> 
[snip]
> If you're Christian convictions are telling you not to be enslaved by
> unreasonable binding terms then I could see why you would feel this way, I
> don't think God intended for us to be servants to a EULA either ;-)

Just to add something to the soup:

God calls us into bondage.  Bondage to him.  It is a great price that we
are called to pay to follow him.  Only through losing your own life....

Only through bondage to him can we know what true freedom really is.

sjm