[LINK] Is free software “communist”? Maybe yes...

Kim Holburn kim at holburn.net
Mon Aug 7 11:24:04 AEST 2006


For the wing nut:

Is free software “communist”? Maybe yes...
http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/node/1707

And some interesting discussion of it (unusual for digg)
http://digg.com/software/Is_free_software_communist_Maybe_yes

> A cornerstone of communism is the lack of a free market, especially  
> a market in which goods are provided by a very few number of  
> vendors. Often, the vendors' markets are geographically dispersed  
> so as to avoid direct competition. That bread, fruits and many  
> other goods were in short supply in the U.S.S.R. was not a result  
> of laziness on the part of the people, but as a result of private  
> (nee "government) control on the production and distribution channel.
>
> Microsoft is more communistic than Linux ever can be. After all, it  
> is not Linux that is denying consumer the rights to computers with  
> Linux installed but Microsoft and its OEM partners.

> The existence of a single product in the market, created by an  
> incredibly powerful monopolistic vendor and sold to a population  
> who have practically no choice but to use that product sure does  
> sound like communism.......and Windows (tm)


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