It's interesting to put these concepts into political-philosophical context, but IMO the author gets it wrong when he maps unix to liberalism and (implicitly) lisp to authoritarianism. I would map unix to conservatism and lisp to leftism, at least in the sense that these terms were used in the french revolution, the source of most of our political concepts, including the left-right spectrum: On the right, people who want to preserve and build on (parts of) the existing system, on the left people who want to rethink everything from the ground up.
