Olin Lathrop wrote:

> Gerhard Fiedler wrote:
>> Here's where you seem to fall short. How about open source software? I'm
>> pretty sure many developers publish their code as GPL because they want
>> to see more open source code, and they are willing to contribute to
>> that goal -- under the condition that whoever uses their code
>> contributes also.
> 
> But that's exactly the social agenda I was talking about.

So what's the problem? Everybody has "social agendas" of this type,
including you. When releasing some of your code with your license, you
further a different "social agenda". When not releasing at all some other
code you write, you further again a certain "social agenda". When you sell
your programmers and services, you further still another "social agenda".
When trying to get along with your neighbor, that's also such a "social
agenda". Everybody likes the things he likes, and everybody tries to get
things a bit closer to that. 

That's one of the uses of expressions that makes these expressions
worthless, because in this sense pretty much every action that has effects
on others (and what action doesn't?) has such a "social agenda".

Gerhard

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