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From: Shayne Wissler <thalesNOSPAM...@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Objectivism and Open-Source
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 19:21:17 +0000 (UTC)
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"Kaz Kylheku" <k...@ashi.footprints.net> wrote in message
news:cf333042.0401231105.b456096@posting.google.com...

> > > Torvalds didn't write the entire operating system; in fact, only a
> > > small fraction of today's codebase can be traced back to him. Had he
> > > turned Linux into a proprietary business from the start, it would not
> > > have gotten anywhere. Financially, he would probably be a lot worse
> > > off had he made that move.
> >
> > You don't know that. You only see the world in terms of how it exists
right
> > now, and that's what you base your thought experiments on.
>
> That's right. So without idle speculations about nonexistent alternate
> outcomes in imaginary parallel universes, how can we answer the
> question whether the man has well served his own interests?

Again, your list of alternatives is paltry. "Idle speculation" is not the
opposite of a lack of imagination.


Shayne Wissler