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I'm not under any illusion that I am going to make any "meaningful change", and I'm not "organizing" anything. I'm a dude writing obscure software on the intern
by gw 13y ago
I'm not under any illusion that I am going to make any "meaningful change", and I'm not "organizing" anything. I'm a dude writing obscure software on the internet. Acts of principle, by definition, are ends in themselves, not pragmatic attempts to achieve some other goal. I lost this battle before I was even born.
- steveklabnik 13y agoIf you write a blog post titled "Why your next project should be public domain" and submit it to one of the largest programming message board son the internet, you are attempting to organize some kind of political change, unintentional or not. I don't care what you do. Writing obscure software is great! Have fun! Even put it in the public domain, you obviously know exactly what you're doing, and I think your principles are fine. I don't think that advocating that others should follow along with what your doing is the most responsible of choices, especially if you don't care about achieving some sort of goal.
- gw 13y agoYou can't imagine any other motivation for me submitting this beyond trying to organize political change? What about the personal satisfaction that comes from discussing a substantive issue with other intelligent people? These sorts of meta-discussions never go anywhere.
- steveklabnik 13y agoI think we have different definitions of 'political.' I would consider discussing a substantive issue with other intelligent people to be a political act. Anyway, as I said elsewhere, rock on. I've already made my point.