[prodigal_erik]

Same values? When Alexey wrote

> We live in a world where having the technological edge makes the difference between success and failure; asking us to just give up that edge for a theoretical idea of freedom is not going to work.

he embraced pure expedience and pretty much disclaimed having any values he'd go out of his way to uphold in this area.

[ugh]

Hm, that’s not how I read that sentence at all. It doesn’t sound like he is stating any values of his own in this sentence to me. Where do you see his values? I don’t see them.

[_pius]

Where do you see his values? I don’t see them.

I think that's the point.

[ugh]

Ok, so where do you see his absence of values? This reads to me like a value-neutral statement. We just don't know them and shouldn't make any claims about them.

[_pius]

I think Stallman would probably agree with the famous Howard Zinn quote: "You can't be neutral on a moving train."

[ugh]

I don't mean neutral in the sense of "having neutral values", I just mean that he does not explicitly express his values. We do not know his values.