My_Case ....
In the previous SpAsm Project, I have maintained from September 1998 to July 2003, I did not feel it necessary to explain who I am, what I am doing exactly, and why I am doing it. I was of the opinion that, releasing SpAsm under the GPL was saying it all by itself and did not need any political, ethical and strategic comments. This silence has proven to be an error.
So here are my views about RosAsm developments, considered inside the programming software, software industry, culture, and more generally speaking inside the world state.
The first reason why I write an Assembler is, of course, because I like doing this. But frankly even if you would love, say, cooking spaghetti, unless you were mentally diseased, I don't think you would do this all day, 12 hours a day, for more than 5 years... So, I have other motivations for working hard and for doing it for free.
I stand in the left extreme anti-globalization group. I am not simply writing innocent Software. I am fighting. If I were living in a country under oppression, I would be fighting with a gun, and, if I would have no gun, I would fight with a knife, a bomb, or anything else. If I would be a poor third world farmer, I would fight with the alternative plant groups, and so on...
Actually, the US plants and corns companies, Montsanto, for example, are developing genetically modified plants. The final purpose of their research and commercial attempts are nothing but taking control over the whole of earth's agriculture, in order to turn agriculture into a Weapon of Mass Destruction . When these criminals succeed with their attempts, all the things, that were free, previously, in the poorer countries, will be under control of the international crime. When a poor third world farmer will want to produce some food by agriculture, he will have to pay... , for what he previously had for free. Needless to say, criminal enterprises, like Montsanto, will do their best for having their genetically modified Plants contaminating all other concurrent plants, in order to deprive people from any alternative. They will also do their best for providing, with one hand, the corns, and with the other hand... the polluting products that will be required for having their corns growing...
The situation is exactly the same in the Software industry. Software is nothing but a Culture Media. Just like Books and other Arts. If Microsoft can not be killed by the free Software, all cultures on earth will be replaced by the MacDonald and Coca-Cola 'Culture'. Quite frankly, in such a world, there will be no room for a man like me, and this is why I fight.
My main concern is not with programming, not with Assembly, and even less with the fun in programming (though I do have some). My main concern is to contribute to fight against the international crime enterprises, generally speaking, and against Microsoft, in this particular case.
I well understand that, many users, being American citizens, this is to say people living in a Nazi and uncultured country, under a very heavy propaganda system, will not understand what I say, and only think I am a bit crazy. This is one of the reasons why I stopped SpAsm development, and restarted with the RosAsm Project. I don't wish to be involved with flat users, who just want a Programming Tool for free... just for fun... and saying to me, when I try to fight against individuals like Hutch or Randall Hyde:
'Hey! this is just Software. There is no ethical, political, social problem with this. Keep cool. Why do you call them names?'.
I want it to be utterly and perfectly clear with this: I am fighting, and RosAsm is my weapon. If you can't understand this, please keep silent or keep out.
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