alt Hacker NewsWell, no, there was an actual point there about trying to effect change via top-down intentionality vs. bottom-up emergence. Any alignment with a particular ideological position is necessarily downstream of that.
Consider the possibility that your own extremely intemperate response originated from a reaction to associations that you yourself were bringing into the discussion.
Apologies for the intemperate response but in my experience everyone who talks about capital-H Hayek has the same set of shrink-wrapped opinions, and the open source / free software thing doesn't fit into them very well.
The gaps between our shared reliance on unpaid open source by people doing software for love, and the "Austrian Economics" financialized worldview are really hard to bridge. Why aren't they all rich if they're so useful?