Nietzsche applied to Open Source's apparent aristocracy (?)

[Darren Dirt]

An interesting article/essay, touches on what exactly motivates those evangelists in the Free Software movement, and what it says about morality and human nature itself.



Or at least that's kinda my summary:



http://www.noemalab.org/sections/ideas/ideas_articles/berry_will_to_code.html

In the Free Software world that hackers inhabit, participants believe themselves to live in a meritocracy, where only the best programmers rise through the ranks to decide the rules of the game for others. But even here there are stark differences in how the contributions hackers make to a community might be judged...



Within Free Software and Free Culture there is an assumption of a certain group of norms and values, a commitment to an uncontested but implicit set of rights and obligations. Here and elsewhere, Nietzsche, then, calls upon us to question whether ... we might not serve ourselves, and our community better by pausing to think what we are doing.