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BearItAll <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Mark Kent wrote:
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>> BearItAll <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>
>>>> Open Source: How both capitalists and communists got it wrong
>>>>
>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>> | Open Source movement has a very passionate group of developers and
>>>> | users provoking similar reaction from the opposing camp (proprietary
>>>> | software developers and users). The open source movement was
>>>> | considered as socialistic movement by some and communist movement by
>>>> | some other people. Bill Gates has called the pro-open source
>>>> | campaigners as modern day communists and Shai Agassi from SAP
>>>> | management team has compared open source with socialism. There has
>>>> | been some talk about how different countries consider open source
>>>> | based on their ideologies..."
>>>> |
>>>> | [...]
>>>> |
>>>> | If anything, the capitalists should embrace the open source model and
>>>> | the communist should embrace the proprietary model. But, what we are
>>>> | seeing is just the reverse of what should naturally happen. The
>>>> | capitalists are trying to write off open source model as a communist
>>>> | ideology and the communists are embracing it even though the
>>>> | development process is not in tune with their own operating structure.
>>>> `----
>>>>
>>>> http://opensource.goingon.com/permalink/post/4374
>>>>
>>>> The subject line refers to just part of a much broader discussion.
>>>
>>> Gads I hate seeing politics discussed under the computer banner.
>>>
>>> If anything it is MS who have taken the communistic approach 'kill off
>>> all opposition'.
>>>
>>> But in the end I think people chose an OS because it works.
>>>
>>
>> But for most people, "works" is an economic decision, /not/ a technical
>> one. And economics is heavily manipulated and influenced by politics.
>> All of the major scientific and engineering leaps forward have had
>> profound impacts on society - OSS is no different; it's naive to ignore
>> this.
>>
>
> I agree with politics controlling the use of anything as powerfull as a
> computer and the Internet. Remember the runaway early years of the
> Internet, it was like no one had control, ISP battles, hacking battles,
> spam battles, the infermous irc wars. Some ISPs did make a bit of a stand.
> But I suspect it wasn't quite politically correct for whole continents to
> be cut off for a few hours because one of their users was currently
> spamming.
I recall someone saying that they kfiled any mail from Brazil because
there we so many spammers there - the response on the mailing list was
furious :-)
>
> So I am all for political controls and know that politics is in computing
> and needs to be.
>
> But I am not communist or socialist or ecconomicist just because I happen to
> use a particular OS. Which ever of those I am, it is for other reasons.
>
I doubt your reasons are free of economic drivers, though, which was
more my point. Politics and economics are fundamental to most people's
lives, so much so that they just don't notice it...
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