The Romanian word for “free” is sometimes “gratis” and sometimes “liber”.
But freedom doesn’t mean that everything is free. I was amazed to see how many socialists with communist ideas we have on our blogoshpere and on the Internet. They want everything to be free (even the access to someone’s personal life) and some of them still live in the communist times using old methods borrowed from Ceausescu’s secret police.
When talking about ethics and doing things right I remembered a small drama from the industry (via RealKafka): Zoso threatened a webmaster and in the end sent e-mail to RNC just because he didn’t respond to its blackmailing. This new generation of secret police officers think they can publish private e-mails and think they can blackmail and do justice all over the Internet. But, like every officer, he is on a payroll, he has a rate card and has a boss. Zoso’s blog is used for subversion and his psychological profile is great for counterintelligence but he is just a tool in a bigger game. Vali Petcu will always have a choice: to do evil (as he did to the guy above) and to do no evil (I think he wants to do things right but his superiors always lead him on a bumpy road).
In all my NGO life, I always believed in democracy and I always believed in Romania and in its new path. I was blessed to meet some of the great people that brought democracy to Romania and there is no way to go back to communism. I stand still before you and I’ll keep fighting all this new generation of secret police that intercepts correspondence and blackmails innocent people in a democratic territory. God bless Romania!
I really love this country!
Is it only me, or you just called Zoso a “securist”?
) This is brilliant, first time I read this on blogs.
Bogdan,
Ai mare dreptate – baiatul asta m-a adus si pe mine la disperare. Stii ca e omul lui Orlando, nu?
“free’ DOES mean “gratis”…
I don’t think that in the corporate world you make the diffrence between “free as in free bear or free as in freedom”. All you copyright upholders (including zoso) should cram it up your a$$ and shut up.
Nice. Your’re right about these types of people. They always pretend to be Jesus but in the end they’re just plain idiots.
In the past year at school i’ve learned that “politica” is actually split into 2 terms in english “politics” and policy”. Though i think the Gogus and Vasiles in Ro’s political stage aren’t aware of these differences. For clarification just politics=politica=circul ordinar.
Working in a domain that regularly bumps into the word “gratis”, i’ve learned that “free” doesn’t mean “gratis”. “Free” si free using common sense and “Gratis” is the Romanian way “ia cat poti sa bagi in 5 saci”.
Bogdan, in my opinion that copyright infringement needs a little more work, but if you(INTACT) give it a little time i think something good can rise out of it.