I like it too... Neat... :)
Tata Dano wrote:
It's a nice contribution...i like it.
On 12/12/06, *manny* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
Communism and the GPL
http://www.bcgreen.com/comments/2005/communism.html
People run around screaming "Communist" like it's a threat to
democracy.
It's really not. Among other things, Soviet Russia suffered under
Stalinism, not communism. True communism is really not much
different than
Capitalism, except for the fact that the profits are more evenly
distributed to the workers, and management gets minimum perks from
their
position (at least in theory).
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Fact of the matter is that that's really not far from the way that
capitalism was meant to work under Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations
(considered by many to be the godfather of modern capitalism).
Under his
view, big multinational corporations were (are) no different than big
government -- both result in centralized decision making which
warps local
economies.
The GPL doesn't force people to use it. People choose to use it
because it
provides them the most value and efficiency. It's much like the
Barn-raising of the old colonial days -- each person provided
their own
unique expertise and energy to the project, knowing that the ultimate
profits would be coming back to him/her in the long run far beyond
the
effort being expended. People were free to stay outside of that
system,
but doing so meant that they also missed out on most of it's benefits.
What the GPL does is it pushes decision-making back down to the local
levels and prevents any big company from controlling the entire
market by
force. This is actually far closer to real free-market capitalism than
Microsoft's market-warping monopoly is, and far closer to
capitalism than
it it is to Stalin's market-warping communism.
It's also far more intrinsically democratic than either.
So, the next time Gates & company starts screaming about the
'communist
GPL', respond
It's not communism. It's financial democracy
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