Metaphors of Free Software

[theo.schmidt at wilhelmtux.ch]

Am 25.09.2014 08:29, schrieb Michael Kesper:
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> I believe in anarchism as much as in communism. (To be clear: not at all).
> I'd vote strongly to let politics and religion out of metaphors for Free
> Software.

I think Free Software *is* in itself a political principle. Certainly it 
seems to me to have parallels to libertarian thinking ( 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism ), which itself has 
parallels to anarchism.

In the not too far away day, when we will have programs or even machines 
which are indistinguishable from humans, software will also have strong 
impacts on religious thinking.

Cheers, Theo