Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Apr. IEEE Spectrum, The word altruism was coined around 1830 by French philosopher August Comte, as the opposite of egoism. Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, Everyone has different motivations-could be karma, could be altruism, but sharing the engineering burden is the more rational reason to participate in the open source community. Recent Examples on the Web The supersized stone, which will lead Christie’s upcoming Magnificent Jewels auction on June 7, has long been used to generate funds for charity and has since become a symbol of altruism.
