Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 26, 2007 04:20 AM
and then say, naw I was just kidding.
The communists killed tens of millions of people. They stoled the property of hundreds of millions more. When they failed they cast hundreds of millions of people into abject poverty with countless people starving to death, or doing anything to get a meal.
Metcalf said, "The Open Source Movement reminds me of communism. Richard Stallman's Marx rants about the evils of the profit motive and multinational corporations. Linus Torvalds' Lenin laughs about world domination."
If it was just Metcalf, then I wouldn't have cared, but Metcalf was one of hundreds of media people saying this in an orchestrated attack against Linux by the convicted criminals over at Microsoft. I am sure that Metcalf cashed his check from MS for his slander against Linux.
The open source movement is 180 degrees opposite from both communism and capitalism. Open source is a new thing, which has never been seen before, something worth billions, with no margin cost to duplicate, which gives an unlimited supply to everyone.
Linux isn't communism because everyone individually owns their own Linux, that has an estimated value at 20 billion dollars. You actually own the software and can do anything you want without restrictions, as long as you don't distribute. If you distribute the software you must abide by the license agreement, because nothing else gives you the right to distribute the software. In communism the state owns and controls everything. In Linux the individual owns and controls everything.
Linux is the opposite of capitalism because it's margin cost to duplicate is essentially zero. Capitalism only works when there is a limited supply of something that a corporation owns and controls. Since each and everyone of us individually owns and controls Linux there is no limited supply for corporations to charge what the market will bear. There is no Linux market.
Even Windows depends on open source software for it's networking, compression and authentication layers. The hard stuff in Windows is nearly all BSD or MIT software.
I have had positions where I put open source software into my companies projects and gave updates back to the open source project. This saved my company months or years of development time and kept us from needing to hire dozens of additional highly skilled developers to implement the needed functionality. This gives startups a chance against large established companies.
Metcalf to this day can't seem to grasp these concepts. He is still saying "Who will take care of the software after the novelty wears off and the volunteers lose interest and get real jobs?" What he fails to understand is that there are tens of thousands of people who get paid to directly support open source projects everyday.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 26, 2007 04:20 AMThe communists killed tens of millions of people. They stoled the property of hundreds of millions more. When they failed they cast hundreds of millions of people into abject poverty with countless people starving to death, or doing anything to get a meal.
Metcalf said, "The Open Source Movement reminds me of communism. Richard Stallman's Marx rants about the evils of the profit motive and multinational corporations. Linus Torvalds' Lenin laughs about world domination."
If it was just Metcalf, then I wouldn't have cared, but Metcalf was one of hundreds of media people saying this in an orchestrated attack against Linux by the convicted criminals over at Microsoft. I am sure that Metcalf cashed his check from MS for his slander against Linux.
The open source movement is 180 degrees opposite from both communism and capitalism. Open source is a new thing, which has never been seen before, something worth billions, with no margin cost to duplicate, which gives an unlimited supply to everyone.
Linux isn't communism because everyone individually owns their own Linux, that has an estimated value at 20 billion dollars. You actually own the software and can do anything you want without restrictions, as long as you don't distribute. If you distribute the software you must abide by the license agreement, because nothing else gives you the right to distribute the software. In communism the state owns and controls everything. In Linux the individual owns and controls everything.
Linux is the opposite of capitalism because it's margin cost to duplicate is essentially zero. Capitalism only works when there is a limited supply of something that a corporation owns and controls. Since each and everyone of us individually owns and controls Linux there is no limited supply for corporations to charge what the market will bear. There is no Linux market.
Even Windows depends on open source software for it's networking, compression and authentication layers. The hard stuff in Windows is nearly all BSD or MIT software.
I have had positions where I put open source software into my companies projects and gave updates back to the open source project. This saved my company months or years of development time and kept us from needing to hire dozens of additional highly skilled developers to implement the needed functionality. This gives startups a chance against large established companies.
Metcalf to this day can't seem to grasp these concepts. He is still saying "Who will take care of the software after the novelty wears off and the volunteers lose interest and get real jobs?" What he fails to understand is that there are tens of thousands of people who get paid to directly support open source projects everyday.
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