User talk:Wolfear
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Mission Statement Feedback
Samira Kirax: I read across the text several times, to me there's nothing important missing so far. Some phrase I'll help improving after the statement is finally adopted. Link to the fsf definition should be provided inside the statement directely http://www.fsf.org/licensing/essays/free-sw.html
We should also keep style/point of view strict, so as we're talking about "our goals" we also talk bout "we" (4freedom) not "the group" in the first lines?
Now however, the mission's a bit "code"-overload...
>Advancement and equality among all people can only occur when technology, knowledge, and education are freely available to all without political or corporate interference< + and restrections
This is the core message to me and does mean much more than "software freedom", which is next line intodruced. So we may write here more about "informed people" as written in mission/goals?
From philosophical point of view this is a step towards "enlightment" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Enlightenment
here a short extract for quick readers:
"This view asserts that the Enlightenment was the point when Europe broke through what historian Peter Gay calls "the sacred circle,"[9] whose dogma had circumscribed thinking. The Enlightenment is held to be the source of critical ideas, such as the centrality of freedom, democracy and reason as primary values of society. This view argues that the establishment of a contractual basis of rights would lead to the market mechanism and capitalism, the scientific method, religious tolerance, and the organization of states into self-governing republics through democratic means. In this view, the tendency of the philosophes in particular to apply rationality to every problem is considered the essential change. From this point on, thinkers and writers were held to be free to pursue the truth in whatever form, without the threat of sanction for violating established ideas."
I know for some people this might be a little too philosophical (it's sunday ;-) ). But you easily recocnize, that we're still on the same problems today!
I always thought that the thinking of that periode didn't "survive" more than 200 years or at least is overhelmed a lot today (couse we'r again in a "scared circle").
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that we (humanity) need something like a "code" ore "infomational technology" adapted Enlightment!
CU inworld, Sami
Wolfear: I made a few of the wording changes recommended. I like the suggestion about including "informed people" as a section. We should work on expanding this idea into a full paragraph concept which ties into the software.
