Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?
Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> writes:
> On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 11:55:35AM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > To rely on gracious behaviour from other organisms is a losing evolutionary
> > strategy, and to attempt to avoid bruised feelings by inducing change in
> > social norms is a doomed proposition.
> >
> > Adapt.
>
> I read in Dawkins that "tit for tat" was the most evolutionarily stable
> strategy. :)
Dawkins was wrong, it turns out, about this and most else. Lots of
nice metaphors, but the biology lacks (see Gould), and the game theory
lacks (see Skyrms).
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