On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 12:20:33PM -0500, [email protected] wrote: > John Young writes: > | Comsec dream: secure means uniquely controllable by each person. > | Free of faith, scripture, authorities, investors, apologists, exploiters. > > > Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The > savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. > Civilization is the process of setting man free from men. > -- Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead (1943)
>From each according to his ability, to each according to his need Does this not describe the copyleft and copyfree software? Or maybe it describes a world where farmers figure out they can make more money by giving away all the food the world needs, and knowing when to sell the rest for profit? But I have a hard time believing that mathematics is anything other than a testable shared belief, in which we all share faith.
