On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 11:48 AM, jtd <[email protected]> wrote: >> If you are referring to China, then they do not practice 'classic >> capitalism'. They have a strong public sector and have been partly >> conquered by MNCs. They are much ahead in FOSS and are more >> self-reliant in IT. > > I have been to China several times in the 80's around the time they > went ballistic on capitalism. They were more "capitalistic" than > countries claiming to be so. With one caveat. You had to be a party > official above a certain rank to start a business - any business. Or > you had to be a foreigner with foreign exchange. > > This is not capitalism. It is cronyism, wherein qualifying critirea > did not have any logic whatsoever. It was gifting away of the
Only the party people would be trained and skilled enough to deal with politics and management. Their system had a much more effective form of democratic centralism before. Weakening of that due to accumulation of wealth in some hands and related problems is an issue. For other OT things see for example http://revcom.us/a/174/dongping_han-en.html The so-called global crisis or usual problem of capitalism has also forced the Chinese Govt to increase investment in the State sector. We should consider the necessary modifications/ enhancements necessary to implement FOSS in different types of systems in more detail. Blind repetition of western propaganda and their manufactured consent does not help. I will start a new thread on the matter. Best A. Mani -- A. Mani ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
