Dave Long wrote: [ on 06:16 AM 3/22/2007 ]
So, apart from the former being atoms and the latter being bits, what are the differences between khadi and open source software?
More similarities than differences, I would think.
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.
I agree.
* 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.
This is also a commentary on the long shadow of the freedom movement (and specifically, Mahatma Gandhi - possibly the most media-savvy politician India has produced, among various other things.)
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