Re: OT: Take a course in philosophy, will ya.

[glenn murphy]

Just because academic types write long texts about how free software is 
marxist doesn't mean that free software has marxist roots, or that the 
important figures in its development had any motivations in economic 
philosophy at all when they started writing their software. Linus 
Torvalds, Richard Stallman, Eric Raymond, etc. are NOT marxists. The 
only really philosphical one among them is Stallman, and his motivation 
is to preserve the freedom of ideas, not to impose communism on the 
software industry. Free software means free as in freedom, not free as 
in free beer. Most people who write and use free software are more 
likely to describe themselves as libertarian than anything else. Anyone 
who calls it marxist or communist is generally going to be either a 
capitalist who's products don't offer enough value to beat free software 
in the marketplace or a communist trying to claim that the success of 
free software validates their point of view. Both are wrong.

Glenn
Collin R Brendemuehl wrote:
http://www.oekonux.org/texts/marketrelations.html
and there's more, if you want to talk seriously.
Collin