The notion of diversity as freedom lives and prospers in Linux. People are different, so whyshouldn't software be. Besides, freedom works . Freedom works for hatching world-class software, but just as well forevolving mature, workable standards. If you're content to just have the trains run on time, you won't even achieve as much as that.
Freedom is no luxury.
The small, indigenous peoples' languages are perfectly adapted to their needs, local environment, way of life. Reflecting upon the value of diversity, we should also realize that a language is a crystallization of many hundreds of generations of labor and of understanding the world around us. It is like asking whether the work and world view of our ancestors have any value. Of course, they have. He uses Linux both at work and at home.