Oh please. You're trying to gain the intellectual high ground, yet refuse to admit the hilarious irony of someone saying "He's not a communist, really. Read his "Manifesto"."? And by the way, of course we've seen it. Typical "Manifesto".
We're just not going to agree. I believe open source is an attack on business, and tears down our borders. You appear to believe it's good for humanity, and why would you need borders in Utopia. At least it's been civil, have a good evening.
"We've" seen it? Are you assuming the royal "we" now? And I don't find this manifesto anything like Marx's work. Maybe you should reread that if you've forgotten how anti-capitalist a manifesto can be. And by the way, contrary to your implication that it is a Communist Manifesto redux, Stallman spends roughly half the document rebutting the idea that capitalism will be offed by GNU. I didn't say the man wasn't a commie or even wasn't a socialist--I just said that, based on the GNU manifesto, he certainly seems to have addressed concerns like yours that free software would be inherently un-capitalist.
We're just not going to agree. I believe open source is an attack on business, and tears down our borders. You appear to believe it's good for humanity, and why would you need borders in Utopia. At least it's been civil, have a good evening.
I don't know where this borders stuff comes from, but I don't see how OSS would be any worse than Microsoft at "tearing down our borders." If the problem with OSS is that other countries use it, Microsoft is at least as prevalent in its spread. I don't think there is any such thing as Utopia on this planet, but I don't think actively attacking a charity that to my knowledge has done nothing but give a free product away is promoting any real agenda at all, anti-Utopian or otherwise. It certainly has no impact on capitalism one way or the other--people will still take the best product they can get for the money they are willing to spend.