Re: Bitkeeper outrage, old and new

walt
2002-10-21T10:58:05Z

Larry McVoy wrote:
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> All you are doing is saying that your goals are better than other goals.
> That's not freedom, that is you deciding what is best for the world...

Karl Marx and Ayn Rand would be contributing to this thread by now if
they weren't both indisposed ;-)

The concept of self-sacrifice for the good of the community (altruism)
was central to their ideas: Marx thought altruism should be mandatory,
Rand thought it should be forbidden (because, in general, anything which
isn't forbidden is mandatory).

RMS is trying to thread a path between Marx and Rand, and naturally is
pissing off people on both sides. Not an enviable lot in life, but at
least he picked it himself.