I appreciate similarity, both free/open source foundation and socialist/communist ideas are built up on humanity conceptually. Basically communism/socialism does not descriminate Americans, though it might be different when we see the ruling party in kerala or else where in the world and that could be the concern of our member :-)
-Bijoy On 5/9/08, doxa at sancharnet.in <doxa at sancharnet.in> wrote: > >Hi rm, > > Please don't get carried away.. > > There is lot of mention of "American Companies"..it sounds like > >American Military or something.. > >Redhat,IBM,HP,Dell,Sun,Google are American Companies tooo.. > >FSF is American too :-) though a 501(c)(3) organisation. > .... > >"Socialism(Communism) is a philosophy of failure, the creed of > >ignorance, and the gospel or envy, its inherent virtue is the equal > >sharing of misery" - Winston Churchill > > >just my thoughts.. > ..... > > Perhaps, there may be victorious instances of socialism or communism, just > like you point out the intricasies centred around Americanism. It would have > been better if you describe what is meant by socialism or communism - there > may be divergent views on them. Free Software development could be a working > socialist model (sharing of ideas) or a working communist model (with > communities developing each idea/project). > CK Raju > _______________________________________________ > Mailinglist mailing list > Mailinglist at ilug-cochin.org > http://ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org > >
