It isn’t so much that they’re leftists, althought I’m sure that many of them are. It’s more that they share a utopian worldview - ‘free’ software for everyone - the implication being that your intellectual property has no value. Scratch the surface, and you’ll most likely find other messianic and in some cases, megalomaniac worldviews.
I leave it as an excercise for our readers to examine the similarities in worldview to other utopian types.
There’s quite a number of us who use Linux simply because we see it as a superior OS.
^^^^^^^^^^^^It isn’t so much that they’re leftists, althought I’m sure that many of them are. It’s more that they share a utopian worldview - ‘free’ software for everyone^^^^^^^^^^
Think you could name one single ‘rightist’ who is on the OSS bandwagon for that exact reason?
I’m on the OSS bandwagon because it’s a better product. There are several freepers who are the same.
^^^^^^^^^^^^Scratch the surface, and you’ll most likely find other messianic and in some cases, megalomaniac worldviews.^^^^^^^^^^^
It might do you some good to spend some time in a forum that’s dedicated to linux......... that also has a special spot in it for politics.
:-)
If you do such a thing come back when you no longer have your hair left and report what you’ve found.
LOL
^^^^^^^^^^^I leave it as an excercise for our readers to examine the similarities in worldview to other utopian types.^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I understand what you’re saying, but as a general applicable rule of thumb, they’re leftists.
Be they greens, communists, socialists, anarchists, liberals, progressives, athiests, journalists, altruists, or any of the other many ‘ists’ that we’ve all seen.
They are not big fans of free economic/market based systems.
Go ahead and go into one of their forums and let it be known that you’re a bush supporter. Here is what you will get:
http://redwing.hutman.net/~mreed/warriorshtm/howlers.htm
I can almost guarantee it.