Before you start calling people 'techo-libertarians' you may want to...oh, i dunno.... KNOW WHAT THE HECK THAT MEANS.
The idea that you are a autonomous subject that should have as little government interference is LIBERTARIANISM.
The idea that we should be a forward-looking society is LIBERALISM (actually, that probably is not right either: so many versions of 'liberal that it means absolutely everything and nothing)
Being a selfish jerk means you are a REPUBLICAN (just kidding... I love George Will).
What the people above are suggesting is that we people need to be compassionate. kind. human/humane. We don't want people left behind just becuase of some accident of where they are born. Teach them how to fish, don't give 'em a fish for one day.
OK, fine, be selfish. But, as Michael Moore says, "If everyone in America is making $40,000 per year, it is a lot less likely that your BMW will get stolen." The reason slavery sucks economically is becuase people are not used to the bes tof their ability, and they also do not feed the economy money through spending.
So if you want to be a good republican, or a good libertarian, then you should be the first one to say, "hey, lets get everyone to a comfortable lifestyle so they'll spend MONEY and make me rich!"
By the way... yes, I realize I have made gross generalizations and no, I don't know of a way to compact 6 years of schooling into 4 paragraphs. But all I REALLY know is that people should be humane....
THis article has seriously made me want to go out and join a club or other organization that helps poor people 'get connected.' In a sense, the whole 'free software' movement is great, as long as we realize that it isn't just about freedom, it is also about free beer.
Everyone keeps harkening on, "Oh yeah, and you can SELL linux too." But you know what I think is another aspect of the revolution? The fact that you can make a $200 box for a home, with a free (as in beer) OS, so that your grandma or a poor inner-city youth can experience the same inforation as everyone else.
Freedom is not freedom if you have to buy it from (Choose your favorite software vendor).
Maybe it is not time yet to start calling for free beer (and the social-guerilla tactics are exactly why I like ESR), but soon (comrades) soon we should stop putting down and rather pick up our neighbors. Strange that code may set us free....
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Before you start calling people 'techo-libertarians' you may want to...oh, i dunno.... KNOW WHAT THE HECK THAT MEANS.
The idea that you are a autonomous subject that should have as little government interference is LIBERTARIANISM.
The idea that we should be a forward-looking society is LIBERALISM (actually, that probably is not right either: so many versions of 'liberal that it means absolutely everything and nothing)
Being a selfish jerk means you are a REPUBLICAN (just kidding... I love George Will).
What the people above are suggesting is that we people need to be compassionate. kind. human/humane. We don't want people left behind just becuase of some accident of where they are born. Teach them how to fish, don't give 'em a fish for one day.
OK, fine, be selfish. But, as Michael Moore says, "If everyone in America is making $40,000 per year, it is a lot less likely that your BMW will get stolen." The reason slavery sucks economically is becuase people are not used to the bes tof their ability, and they also do not feed the economy money through spending.
So if you want to be a good republican, or a good libertarian, then you should be the first one to say, "hey, lets get everyone to a comfortable lifestyle so they'll spend MONEY and make me rich!"
By the way... yes, I realize I have made gross generalizations and no, I don't know of a way to compact 6 years of schooling into 4 paragraphs. But all I REALLY know is that people should be humane....
THis article has seriously made me want to go out and join a club or other organization that helps poor people 'get connected.' In a sense, the whole 'free software' movement is great, as long as we realize that it isn't just about freedom, it is also about free beer.
Everyone keeps harkening on, "Oh yeah, and you can SELL linux too." But you know what I think is another aspect of the revolution? The fact that you can make a $200 box for a home, with a free (as in beer) OS, so that your grandma or a poor inner-city youth can experience the same inforation as everyone else.
Freedom is not freedom if you have to buy it from (Choose your favorite software vendor).
Maybe it is not time yet to start calling for free beer (and the social-guerilla tactics are exactly why I like ESR), but soon (comrades) soon we should stop putting down and rather pick up our neighbors. Strange that code may set us free....