On 12/19/06, rexonf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 12/18/06, Rogelio Serrano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 12/13/06, rexonf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > GPL is undeniably communist.
> >
> > It is just that communism has become (wrongly) associated with central
> > control, dictatorship and tyranny among other things.
> >
>
> I dont see anything communist in a small company using gpl tools and
> contributing gpl code so they can maximise profit.
>
>
They are participating in shared ownership of the code, this is
communist.... and is independent of maximising profit.
Wrong.
The GPL is not communist.
Communism has nothing to do with it. Its more like an agreement. A
convention. Is NASA communist? what about the genome project? The
knowledge acquired by these agencies are owned by everybody. Is that
bad?
communism has no place in the open source community. we are talking
about ideas here. And we all believe that nobody has the right to
restrict anyone from using an idea that has been acquired by whatever
means. you cannot make a person forget an idea, can you?
communism is all about the means of production and who should own it.
now that is the bad stuff i do not like. does the community own my
computer too? of course not!
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