[LINK] What? The Open Source Movement; a Socialist phenomenon?

[Howard Lowndes]

troll bait :)

Brendan Scott wrote:
> What? The Open Source Movement; a Socialist phenomenon?
> http://www.alwayson-network.com/comments.php?id=12877_0_5_0_C
> 
> Both of these guys are trying to draw a parallel between open-source and 
> left wing politics that is just not there. Communism and Socialism are 
> about central planning and imposing a system without property rights on 
> a populace.

ergo Proprietary Code == Communism
well, it does have central control and does not confer property rights

  Open Source is not about a lack of property rights, it’s
> about distributed property rights, distributed responsibility and 
> networked rather than hierarchical processes. 
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