Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:02:12 -0700 | From | walt <> | Subject | Re: Bitkeeper outrage, old and new |
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Larry McVoy wrote: . . . > 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.
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