1) Just because there might be more 'justifiable' charities to contribute to does not delegitimize the value of contributions to open source software. This would mean that we would be morraly obligated to find the 'most justifiable' charity and focus all charitable work/donations to this single charity. That is not reasonable. 2) When contributing to a charity one must maximize one's contributions by utilizing his/her strengths. 3) Look at the bigger picture. The open source movement represents much more that free software. It represents an entirely new mindset within society and the economy. A mindset where the end goal is mutual advancement as opposed to selfish moneymaking. This mindset has already seeped into other areas of our society such as genetic research. This can only be beneficial to the advancement of humanity and the diminishing of suffering in the end simply because we rid ourselves of the ultimate bottleneck to social harmony: greed. Brady Swenson bswenson@ukans.edu bswenson@beap.com
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well written ... I agree completely
1) Just because there might be more 'justifiable' charities to contribute to does not delegitimize the value of contributions to open source software. This would mean that we would be morraly obligated to find the 'most justifiable' charity and focus all charitable work/donations to this single charity. That is not reasonable. 2) When contributing to a charity one must maximize one's contributions by utilizing his/her strengths. 3) Look at the bigger picture. The open source movement represents much more that free software. It represents an entirely new mindset within society and the economy. A mindset where the end goal is mutual advancement as opposed to selfish moneymaking. This mindset has already seeped into other areas of our society such as genetic research. This can only be beneficial to the advancement of humanity and the diminishing of suffering in the end simply because we rid ourselves of the ultimate bottleneck to social harmony: greed. Brady Swenson bswenson@ukans.edu bswenson@beap.com