Meliton wrote:
Oooh - don't get me started on the Mother Theresa cult, or "OT" will be several orders of magnitude too small to describe what I could get into!I have a debt of gratitude to these folks. But they do it because they want to, they are Mother Theresas to me, but then she went to the lepers 'cos SHE wanted to, also. Money is not the only thing that moves people, but "altruism" is at least as ambiguous as my use of "egoism". I refuse to take it at face value.
It happens to us all! I'm sure if someone on this list said something like "Donald Knuth is OK, but in terms of sheer intellectual genius he has nothing on Ayn Rand" I would be setting phasers on flame before I'd even considered whether it was worth repsonding to on a Linux list.I hope this deep down the thread nobody who is likely to be shocked by the misplacing of such discussions is reading. If anybody, however, should be offended, I apologize. I guess I too got a button inadvertedly pressed... :)
One place your ideas might fruitfully be appreciated / debated / criticised / abused is a philosophy forum such as http://www.livejournal.com/users/philosophy . The philosophical issues of Open Source / Free Software are worth debating outside the techie community.
Sir Robin
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