Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on January 10, 2004 02:13 AM
I have seen at least four posts under different stories with you spouting your socialist/capitalist nonsense.
Are you the new FUD writer that Microsoft has assigned to this site?
Linux has nothing to do with socialism versus capitalism.
Linux is Open Source, which simply means that end users have the ability to change the code, or to ask or pay someone else to change it.
For example, I don't know how to change the Linux source code, yet my son has introduced patches to improve my Linux system -- patches that involved changing the Linux kernel code.
In other words, I benefitted from the fact that Linux is Open Source, even though I can't change the code myself. Thus your "Open Source is only for power users" argument is nonsense.
Likewise, the top executives at IBM don't have the time or ability to edit the Linux source code, yet they pay others to do it for them. Do you think that IBM is doing that in order to promote socialism???
Open Source is to software, as Credit Unions are to banking, or Co-Ops are to farming. In each case, people work together to perform a service for themselves that otherwise they would have to pay a company to provide.
Just as a Credit Union allows someone to improve his banking experience, even though he has no idea how to invest the money himself, and a Co-Op allows a farmer to improve his marketing experience, even though he doesn't have the marketing skills himself, Open Source allows an end user to improve his computing experience, even if he doesn't have the programming skills himself.
Would you also argue that Credit Unions and Co-Ops are anti-capitalist?
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on January 10, 2004 02:13 AMAre you the new FUD writer that Microsoft has assigned to this site?
Linux has nothing to do with socialism versus capitalism.
Linux is Open Source, which simply means that end users have the ability to change the code, or to ask or pay someone else to change it.
For example, I don't know how to change the Linux source code, yet my son has introduced patches to improve my Linux system -- patches that involved changing the Linux kernel code.
In other words, I benefitted from the fact that Linux is Open Source, even though I can't change the code myself. Thus your "Open Source is only for power users" argument is nonsense.
Likewise, the top executives at IBM don't have the time or ability to edit the Linux source code, yet they pay others to do it for them. Do you think that IBM is doing that in order to promote socialism???
Open Source is to software, as Credit Unions are to banking, or Co-Ops are to farming. In each case, people work together to perform a service for themselves that otherwise they would have to pay a company to provide.
Just as a Credit Union allows someone to improve his banking experience, even though he has no idea how to invest the money himself, and a Co-Op allows a farmer to improve his marketing experience, even though he doesn't have the marketing skills himself, Open Source allows an end user to improve his computing experience, even if he doesn't have the programming skills himself.
Would you also argue that Credit Unions and Co-Ops are anti-capitalist?
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