
Monday January 31, 2005
Open Source and Winston Churchill
Sitting in Stanford Memorial Chapel last week for a memorial service, I
was reminded of a famous Winston Churchill quote. Strangely enough, it
was exactly 40 years from the date of Churchill's own passing.
The quote stayed with me all day, and all week, and for those of you
who haven't thought of the connection between open source and Sir
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, well, here it is:
- "We make a living by what we get, we
make a life by what we give."
- Sir Winston
Churchill
British politician (1874 - 1965)
Of course, I didn't remember the exact quote when I returned to work
later that day (and I wasn't in a position to write it down at the
chapel), so I turned to
the trusty google search engine, which took me to both the Quotations
page (which recently had its 10
year anniversary) and to the WikiQuote
page where I quickly found what I hope is the exact quote. I
didn't have such good luck finding the context for the quote, but I'm
pretty sure he was not
talking about open source at the time. Still, it is a good fit
for the philosophy behind open source and the benefits of giving to
a community...
(2005-01-31 00:47:30.0)
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Posted by sh on November 09, 2005 at 07:07 PM PST #