MSOFT versus Open Source movement

Gordon Fitch gcf at panix.com
Fri May 4 11:49:44 PDT 2001


Kendall wrote:
> >You should read what I said more carefully. I was specifically talking
> >> not about all workers or about society, but about progressive people
> >> who are already predisposed to self-regulating their consumptive
> >> practices based on their own moral reasoning.

Archer.Todd at ic.gc.ca wrote:
> >Kendall, I think, given what Carrol has written before, that Carrol's
> >problem with your "moralizing" is that progressive actions on an individual
> >level are relatively meaningless given the power a mass movement would have
> >when acting on similar issues. Forgive me if I'm taking seriously a private
> >joke between the two of you, but it certainly sounded as if the two of you
> >were doing your damndest to talk past each other.

Doug Henwood:
> I remember a quote from Durenmatt's play The Physicists, which I read
> in high school German class long ago, which runs something like:
> "Every attempt by an individual to solve that which concerns all must
> fail."

Hence, every attempt to solve that which concerns all must fail, since it would have to start with one individual or another -- unless you postulate some kind of group mind, which seems rather in the right-wing bag.



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