I finished Stand on Zanzibar . But by the end, there are too many people to hope for this. To me, this was an incredible non sequitur, truly a bizarre conclusion. This is all nonsense, as you can learn by reading Levy's Hackers or by talking to some.
Free software is traditional.
Many programs were developed by some virtuosi and often with the help of user community contributions. It was up in the air, and the public policy came down in favor of the advocates of software copyright. Software copyright is a new invention, much newer than software itself. I don't see why free software shouldn't be relevant to everybody, whether or not you go to monthly sex parties. Libertarianism, and more All this makes me think that it's quite clear that libertarian thought can be conceived as an attack on political authority per se and not on traditional values.