[Golden Eagle]

It's not much of a business model if it is designed to harm another company instead of making money. That's the problem with anti-capitalist liberals: They want to "get even" or take an emotional approach instead of make money.

Bingo. They also want to share America's wealth with the rest of the world for free, and when it comes to US intellectual property, open source (GPL) software like linux is the perfect vehicle for doing so.

[Codename - Ron Benjamin]

I'm making an attempt to understand your posture, thing I find hard to do, so please don't take my argument as an attack.

You said, with a bit of edition for clarity and conciseness, "Want to share's America's wealth (referring to intellectual property) for free"

As I've seen on your posts lately, your argument is "America should keep some information as a secret from the rest of the world, because given information represents a competitive edge".

If the exact same information (the "how to do" as in "how to schedule through eight processors", without the full implementation) contained in Linux were published as a book, would your argument still be the same?