Word: altruism
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...Clearly, altruism must play a role as giving away software is no where near as lucrative as charging $500 for it, as common sense and Stallman will tell. People are still writing free software, however, and FSF continues to grow...
...technologically primitive social structure. The good news is that doing this job entailed some quite pleasant feelings. Because social cooperation improves the chances of survival, natural selection imbued our minds with an infrastructure for friendship, including affection, gratitude and trust. (In technical terms, this is the machinery for "reciprocal altruism.") And the fact that offspring carry our genes into posterity accounts for the immense joy of parental love...
...fact, the only time the movie seems to falter is when it tries too hard to teach a lesson. The description of Francesca's altruism in sacrificing her desire for her responsibility suddenly reforms her children into believing that they must look for the passion in their lives...
...that premeds don't have a monopoly on unethical behavior. The pre-law and pre-investment banking students are pretty evil too. But at least they're honest about being sleazy. Unlike the pre-meds, they don't try to hide their sliminess and greed behind a veneer of altruism...
Harvard Bookstore owner Frank Kramer says trying to keep the mall-atmosphere out of the Square is "good business, not altruism...