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> They are free in a purely anarchist sense. This is not a good thing™. ?
by olgeni 13y ago
> They are free in a purely anarchist sense. This is not a good thing™.
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- mtgx 13y agoAnarchy = "freedom" to kill someone, etc Democracy = freedom to do what you want, as long as you don't infringe on other people's rights/freedoms. So I think he wants to say GPL is more like democracy from this point of view, while MIT is more like anarchy, where everyone can do whatever they want with it (both good and bad).
- dragonwriter 13y ago> So I think he wants to say GPL is more like democracy from this point of view The GPL certainly is more authoritarian and less like anarchy, but I don't recall public open-to-all-citizens elections for either FSF leadership or the specific content of the GPL, so its not very much like direct or representative democracy. More like ideological autocracy, which is great if you agree 100% with both the ideology and strategy of the revolutionary vanguard, not so much otherwise.