Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 24, 2002 03:59 AM
"The GNU GPL operates on the basis of ownership. Without ownership, the GNU GPL can't function.
Rather, it is proprietary companies that seek to remove ownership rights from the public, by licensing everything to them. In that system, there is no ownership. In the GNU GPL method - ownership rights are retained ultimately."
Read "Why Software Should Not Have Owners" article on "http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-free.html". The goal of the GPL is to remove ownership, period.
"Don't turn this into something it's not. Comparing the GNU GPL to socialism (which is a system of government that seeks to provide base living capabilities to all people in the nation) is not an accurate comparison."
Socialism is the idea of getting rid of the power ownership and owners has over people. The number one goal in socialism is to remove ownership so that man can be free. Yes, thats right, socialism is also about freedom, don't beleive the propaganda that was spread during the cold war.
Capitalism and socialism is just two different ways of defining freedom and ways of life.
In a capitalist society freedom is defined as beeing able to trade with goods and services freely and let the free market set the price.
In a socialist society freedom is defined as not beeing subject to the power owners has over people buying these goods and services. It's a share economy where everything belongs to everybody.
The free software foundation most definiately aims at socialism and share economy.
"Also, while the Free Software and Open Source movement are as you represent them (Free Software political, Open Source apathetic) the communities often overlap and both communities accept each other's licenses more often than not."
Very true, but for different reasons. Why do you think Stallman is so upset by the open source movement? Thats because the open source movement just suggest a way of developing software, the free software foundation is political and don't care much about anything else.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 24, 2002 03:59 AMRather, it is proprietary companies that seek to remove ownership rights from the public, by licensing everything to them. In that system, there is no ownership. In the GNU GPL method - ownership rights are retained ultimately."
Read "Why Software Should Not Have Owners" article on "http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-free.html". The goal of the GPL is to remove ownership, period.
"Don't turn this into something it's not. Comparing the GNU GPL to socialism (which is a system of government that seeks to provide base living capabilities to all people in the nation) is not an accurate comparison."
Socialism is the idea of getting rid of the power ownership and owners has over people. The number one goal in socialism is to remove ownership so that man can be free. Yes, thats right, socialism is also about freedom, don't beleive the propaganda that was spread during the cold war.
Capitalism and socialism is just two different ways of defining freedom and ways of life.
In a capitalist society freedom is defined as beeing able to trade with goods and services freely and let the free market set the price.
In a socialist society freedom is defined as not beeing subject to the power owners has over people buying these goods and services. It's a share economy where everything belongs to everybody.
The free software foundation most definiately aims at socialism and share economy.
"Also, while the Free Software and Open Source movement are as you represent them (Free Software political, Open Source apathetic) the communities often overlap and both communities accept each other's licenses more often than not."
Very true, but for different reasons. Why do you think Stallman is so upset by the open source movement? Thats because the open source movement just suggest a way of developing software, the free software foundation is political and don't care much about anything else.
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