On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 12:20:33PM -0500, dan@geer.org wrote:
John Young writes: | Comsec dream: secure means uniquely controllable by each person. | Free of faith, scripture, authorities, investors, apologists, exploiters.
Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men. -- Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead (1943)
From each according to his ability, to each according to his need
Does this not describe the copyleft and copyfree software? Or maybe it describes a world where farmers figure out they can make more money by giving away all the food the world needs, and knowing when to sell the rest for profit? But I have a hard time believing that mathematics is anything other than a testable shared belief, in which we all share faith.