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  • I mean the open-source architecture is collaborative and volunteerist, whereas our contemporary political systems is fundamentally adversarial.

    Ron Dembo: Resilience and Civilization: Part II 2008

  • This freedom, in both its negative and positive aspects, assumes a rule of law and the motivation of citizens to contribute toward a just society, which is left undefined but probably understood at that time as meaning freedom of opportunity under equal protection of the law in a society of individuals motivated in their private lives by an ethos aimed at uplifting the poor and disadvantaged through volunteerist efforts.

    Contagion of freedom? Or appeal of submission? Horace Jeffery Hodges 2005

  • The patent system seems to be actively antagonistic to standards and volunteerist development of software.

    Planet XML 2010

  • In order to combat a silly volunteerist myth promoted by homophobic

    Los Angeles Metblogs 2009

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