On 12/20/06, Rogelio Serrano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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?
Isn't communism (and any other social structure) an agreement and a convention? 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!
Yes. In communism the means of production (in the case of software, the source code), is under shared ownership. What you do with your share of the produce is up to you. What matters is no one can monopolize the means of production.
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