Open Source: How both capitalists and communists got it wrong
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| 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..."
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| 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.
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http://opensource.goingon.com/permalink/post/4374
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