There is always a cost to the choices we make. I choose not to be on Facebook, and that has a social cost. It's the same for the software we use, and the princ

There is always a cost to the choices we make. I choose not to be on Facebook, and that has a social cost. It's the same for the software we use, and the principles we adopt. I support Open Source ideals, but its not a -principle-. I'm OK using whatever to get the job done, clearly for someone like RMS (for whom it's a principle) how it gets done is more important than doing it. We all have principles, but they don't have to be the same, and they don't have to be equivalent. I believe in climate change, I'm doing what i can, but I still fly occasionally. It's great to have people who stand on principles, because it highlights the important. But I can't take on all the principles at the level that all my role models do. I can't be Greta Thunberg, and RMS, and whoever else all at the same time. But i can borrow from all of them, they can all inspire me yo be better, and they can encourage me to find my own principles- things that are inviolate regardless of the consequences.