On 12/22/06, manny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Fri, 22 Dec 2006, Tata Dano wrote: > One of the theories of Communism is the Dialectical Materialism which means > through Conflict and Ideas everything will evolved and developed....just > like what GPL does opening up source code to wide world community so that it > will evolved and developed through discussion, sharing of ideas and > contribution. Capitalism does the same thing by fostering competition. Is capitalism communist?
Wait a minute... under capitalism aren't you supposed to patent your ideas so you can restrict who uses them? Dialectical materialism is far more complex. The GPL is more like
capitalism in that it involves competiton, not any dialectical movement.
Isn't the GPL supposed to foster cooperation? So I don't have to write my own competing implementation of an XML parser, for example.
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