Three Monkeys, Ten Minutes

I was never really decked out in the regalia (I couldn't afford it -- all I could manage was op-shop clothes. Though some of those were admittedly a bit odd looking). But I sort of led the life style and I most definitely approved of the philosophy (if that's not too pompous a word). I still do approve, come to that. On several occasions in my classes I've compared the altruism of the open source movement to the hippy world view. Many of its leading practitioners were (and are) hippies. And that degree of sympathy is very probably why I feel so comfortable with open source and so very unconfortable with closed source. Perhaps I haven't shed enough ideals yet...