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Brazil (Linux Journal)

Posted Jul 15, 2006 14:23 UTC (Sat) by fjf33 (subscriber, #5768)
In reply to: Brazil (Linux Journal) by sdalley
Parent article: Brazil (Linux Journal)

Isn't that just another form of self interest? I guess is more self gratification.


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Brazil (Linux Journal)

Posted Jul 15, 2006 16:24 UTC (Sat) by dark (subscriber, #8483) [Link]

If you deny the very existence of the desire to help others, then of course you can conclude that everything is done out of self-interest. But then that statement no longer means anything.

Brazil (Linux Journal)

Posted Jul 15, 2006 21:37 UTC (Sat) by sdalley (subscriber, #18550) [Link]

Well, that's not how I have it.

Brazil (Linux Journal)

Posted Jul 20, 2006 7:27 UTC (Thu) by ekj (guest, #1524) [Link]

If you start by saying: "All human behaviour is self-interest".

Then it's no longer an interesting observation that developing free software is often done for self-interest. If that's the case for all actions, then the statement is obvious and trivial.

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