[TechJunkYard]

The brave new world of Communist tyranny is not found in 'open source', but in megalithic corporations run by egomaniacs who admit no social responsibilty and no check on their unquenchable lust for power.

Right on.

This nation was built by free people who wanted to do their own thing, free from the bonds and restrictions imposed on them by the King and Church of England. The Open Source community's philosophy and background is very similar.... notwithstanding the fact that a few pirates have attempted to pervert OSS for their own gain.

How some otherwise-right-thinking people can equate this to communism is beyond me.

[KwasiOwusu]

"This nation was built by free people who wanted to do their own thing....The Open Source community's philosophy and background is very similar"


Dream on.
This country was built by capitalists and entrepreneurs with a strong profit motive
Men like J P Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller etc etc.
They built this country. Strong visionary men who went out to build and to OWN what they built.
Every one of them stood for principles diametrically opposite to what the communist open source crazies stand for.

[Golden Eagle]

How some otherwise-right-thinking people can equate this to communism is beyond me.

Simple. Your suggestion is to substitute our capitalistic system for your system of shared society. No thanks, there's too many US tech workers dependent on our capitalistic system to keep working the way it is, and this foreign freeware you are pushing on us is a serious threat.