Paul McNett wrote: > Bill Arnold wrote: >> There are providences of that super fast, binary switching machine >> called a computer, not the language. My point of all this is that we >> didn't need a thousand different tools/languages in the first place, >> that we could have done everything we wanted to do with the original >> language. But we behave like flocks, always rushing to the Next Big >> Thing without really thinking about what it is we're doing. > > No, we believe like human beings. We need to see concrete results before > deciding if that way was wrong or right, what we can take from the > experience and what we can ditch. > > As communication gets better and better, we avoid making the same > mistakes over and over again. We no longer use lead paint, for example. > > I see the open source movement as the ultimate expression of democracy. >
Democracy??? Have you ever seen the acronym BDFL (Benevolent Dictator For Life)? Ask Ed or any of the other Python guys. Open source can be a democracy (rarely), a meritocracy (often), a dictatorship (sometimes), a tribe (sometimes), and many other species. I like to think it is a good step in the direction of anarchy, or at least a direct democracy (as opposed to representative democracy which is the one most of us enjoy). _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
