> It's not a personal decision anymore than the MMR or polio vaccines. The world will be made by the people browsing HN. Programmers will be the new blue colla

> It's not a personal decision anymore than the MMR or polio vaccines. The world will be made by the people browsing HN. Programmers will be the new blue collar workers whose decisions will impact our infrastructure more than almost anybody. Holding views like this is a scary proposition for the new world we're entering. I am deeply disturbed by how pronounced the desire for authoritarianism is among this group of individuals. We are supposed to be better than this. Free software is all about freedom - not conformity. It is about having the freedom to maintain one's privacy and not having to explain yourself for wanting to maintain that position. The code is the code, but motivations for that code are wholly irrelevant. Instead we appear to be drifting in the direction of "open source" - full of wining babies who demand things from the select few with the actual talent with complete disregard for other people's rights, motivations, talents, and interests. It's a miracle that installing McAfee Antivirus software on our computers was never a government-mandated law.