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Article #614Re: Patenting software (was Re: Why I do not support GNU)
From: Rodney Peck II
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1989 16:47
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1989 16:47
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>>>>> On 25 Oct 89 16:19:33 GMT, nli!jym@APPLE.COM said: > It's possible that the survival of the fittest is no longer a useful > concept (it's not a "paradigm"), especially applied to human society. jym> Actually, "survival of the fittest" is a term used by Social Darwinists, jym> not Darwin Darwinists. jym> While Darwin Darwinism focused on competition, it's long been known jym> that survival strategies lean more toward cooperation. The organisms jym> that know how to cooperate with their ecosystem survive better. But then evolution has no interest in producing the most intelligent group of people, simply the most aggressive and reproductive group. -- Rodney
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!watmath!uunet!crdgw1!rpi!rpi.edu!rodney From: rodney@sun.ipl.rpi.edu (Rodney Peck II) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Patenting software (was Re: Why I do not support GNU) Message-ID: <RODNEY.89Oct27124802@sun.ipl.rpi.edu> Date: 27 Oct 89 16:47:24 GMT References: <1989Oct24.155833.5957@mentor.com> <8910251619.AA02142@nlp9> Distribution: gnu Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Image Processing Lab, Troy NY Lines: 17 In-Reply-To: nli!jym@APPLE.COM's message of 25 Oct 89 16:19:33 GMT