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To: ShadowAce; The_Victor

"copyleft" has everything to do with politics. Just as the article admits, it aims to turn our capitalistic society on it's head, and communist governments the world over are flocking to it.


6 posted on 02/23/2006 8:02:38 AM PST by Golden Eagle
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To: Golden Eagle
"copyleft" has everything to do with politics.

Wrong.

Just as the article admits,...

You must've read something I didn't. Where?

9 posted on 02/23/2006 8:09:57 AM PST by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: Golden Eagle

Open source is inherently more capitalistic than the business models of MS or apple.....

Besides, your argument makes zero sense.

^^^^^^^^^^^and communist governments the world over are flocking to it.^^^^^^^^^^^

Communist governments flocked to windows at one point. That didn't make windows communist then.

And now that these governments are leaving windows, that doesn't make windows less communistic now.

It's how the models are set up. Microsoft spends alot more time trying to make you dependent than the OSS crowd. Is that capitalistic or communistic? Hmmmm?


15 posted on 02/23/2006 8:18:24 AM PST by Halfmanhalfamazing (Linux, the #2 OS. Mac, the #3 OS. Apple's own numbers are hard to argue with.)
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To: Golden Eagle
"copyleft" has everything to do with politics. Just as the article admits, it aims to turn our capitalistic society on it's head, and communist governments the world over are flocking to it.

His blog is "Hacking for Christ." That kind of puts a dent in a chain of arguments seen on FR: OSS is communist, communism is anti-Christian. Well, here's an outspoken Christian leading one of the most prominent OSS projects.

19 posted on 02/23/2006 8:23:10 AM PST by antiRepublicrat
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To: Golden Eagle
Just as the article admits, it aims to turn our capitalistic society on it's head

I wouldn't get too worried about it. Netscape and IE are both free as well. Danged capitalistic competition.....

52 posted on 02/23/2006 9:36:36 AM PST by The_Victor (If all I want is a warm feeling, I should just wet my pants.)
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