On Fri, 2006-12-29 at 03:56 +0800, rexonf wrote: > 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?
This discussion is already way off-topic. At any rate, you are not obliged to patent ideas in capitalism. in pure capitalism, monopolies are severely discouraged as they hamper competition. Now, regarding patents, the intention of patents is to provide a state-sanctioned limited-time monopoly for inventions in exchange for placing the ideas contained in the invention as public information. Patents are not designed to restrict ideas per se. Unfortunately, the intention of patents has been subverted and corrupted when it comes to software patents. > > 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. Check the original intent of the GPL first. It was designed to foster freedom originally - with the side-effect that it fosters competition. The GPL allows forking to a competing implementation - but allows subversion of that intent as improvements to the fork can be merged back to the original project. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
