[silk] khadi vs. open source

[Dave Long]

So, apart from the former being atoms and the latter being bits, what are  
the differences between khadi and open source software?

Even that distinction is too facile: one might argue that khadi, like  
punk*, "is an attitude"; if the point is to direct one's activities in  
anagoric as well as agoric directions, then the cloth itself, like the CD  
of a distribution, is the accident, not the essence.

-Dave

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* OK, if the political class in india (whether governmental or NG) tends  
to be khadi clad, that pretty much speaks to a different demographic than  
punk.  But it does suggest that CSPAN might be more interesting if the US  
political class ditched the suits and took their sartorial cues from punks  
and skins.