On 12/20/06, rexonf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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?
Thats a matter of degree. A whole state enforcing the sharing of
ownership of all means of production is a communist state. The open
source community is far from that. Its not even a state! Participants
did not agree to share everything!
Is adoption of open source in government the beginning of a communist
state? Nonsense!
> 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.
That still does not constitute communism. Sharing ownership does not
make any participant a communist. Is sharing ownership of source code
enough to say we are becoming involved in communism? Of course not! Is
NASA communist because they released source code under the GPL? Are
scientists communist because they want unrestricted sharing of
knowledge.
So do we avoid the GPL so we will not become a communist state?
Thats nonsense. Pure nonsense.
Saying GPL is communist is just pure propaganda. You are trying to
turn people off the GPL by using their aversion to communism!
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