Sheesh.. are we gonna evolve to some socialogy group ?
I just wanna share linux..
Elvin
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On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Ng Kai Hoe Raymond wrote:
> It seems that many people here, despite
> being involved in the Linux world and seen
> how Linux became successful, want to adopt
> a sociological system which only works for
> agricultural/industrial type of society
> and does _not_ work in a social order where
> all social demarcations are in the process
> of being broken up with the advent of the
> Internet.
>
> You look at all the Linux communities worldwide,
> and you will see that there are no formally
> appointed leaders. Before I even suggested the
> site, I quoted the Darwinist propaganda, "life
> will find a way". It seems that I have
> overestimated this group's knowledge on Darwinism,
> evolution and natural selection. What I have been
> saying is what Rhandeev has just told you in very
> simple and direct terms, a leader will _evolve_ out
> eventually, in several areas. It is best that for
> a social order that Linux seems to be moving towards,
> we better let a leader evolve by itself, and at best,
> naturally and non officially.
>
> _TRUST_ us, we have seen hacker communities fell to
> internal political strife. Once you form a leader formally,
> I assure you for sure that the portal will collapse
> immediately. Linux itself is one good example of a
> successful "leaderless" developmental project, if some
> of your religious devotion to Linux is so strong, why don't
> you follow the model that makes Linux so successful and
> apply it to the Portal?
>
> ps : and to Chin Qui, yes, I am reading Wealth of
> Nations now, and I must say that you are missing the
> point completely. Adam Smith might not be completely
> correct in today's context, but his ideas on division
> of labour as the modus operandi of synergistic
> economy still hold, and contradict Rhandeev's puny little
> taunt for me to "refine my own metals".
>
> And even if Wealth of Nations no longer makes any sense
> now, it still serves as a piece of literature which marks
> an important point in our history of social evolution and
> academic thought.
>
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> 'The pursuit of truth, when it is whole hearted, must ignore moral
> considerations; one cannot know in advance that the truth will turn out to
> be what is thought edifying in a given society.'
> - Bertrand Russell, "A History of Western Philosophy"
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