Now that is something I heartily agree with. It’s just that I know to many liberal open source programmers who do nothing but calculate how to work for maximum money while constantly declaring they reject capitalism because they work for nonprofits and reject IP rights. Mind you these are people who earn their keep by selling their ability to think logically. It’s maddening to listen to their hypocrisy.
Especially since I’m not 20 anymore - and neither are they.
LOL! Oh, and I know it! Put them on electronic real estate and they are staunch Conservatives - The principles behind 'Gratis v. Libre', 'free as in beer' v. 'free as in speech' are attendant to the same things which founded us here, the right to assemble, the right to travel unmolested, the right to pursue liberty - very good and righteous things... But put them IRL, and their erudite stand upon solid principle evaporates like a Popsicle on a car hood.
I have had no end of fun pointing that out to them, turning their very arguement (gratis v. libre) upon their own heads! Keep preaching it... They will get it in the end.
But their IRL socialism aside, they are all of one mind when it comes to the defense of internet geography - try to limit liberty on the net, and you will be immediately assaulted by the entire whole, like an angry swarm of wasps. And I can say without a doubt that I will be among them.
Strange bedfellows, eh?