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To: Halfmanhalfamazing
Capitalism is a social system based on the principle of individual rights.

ROFL, there you are again putting up that funky defintion of Capitalism you found on a .org site. Capitalism isn't a "social" system, it's an economic system, based on private ownership and the profit motive. At it's best, free software is a form of Altruism, which can compliment capitalism in society, but not as a complete replacement for it like leftist "the father of free software" nutjob Richard Stallman are intent on implementing. For you to try to equat that green party whacko to the richest guy in the world Bill Gates, or to another true pioneer of the digital age Steve Jobs, shows how far out in left you are too.


50 posted on 03/10/2007 7:02:06 AM PST by Golden Eagle
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To: Golden Eagle
So you tell me I'm wrong, then you agree with me:

^^^^^^^^^^^^^At it's best, free software is a form of Altruism, which can compliment capitalism in society^^^^^^^^^^

Altruism is more capitalistic than it is communistic. It still requires free will, the most important ingredient that's missing from communism. Free will is the most important ingredient of both capitalism and altruism.

^^^^^^^^^^For you to try to equat that green party whacko to the richest guy in the world Bill Gates, or to another true pioneer of the digital age Steve Jobs, shows how far out in left you are too.^^^^^^^^^^^

I didn't say that Gates nor Jobs was the same kind of leftist that Stallman is. Heck, Jobs isn't the same kind of leftist that Gates is.

But like it or not, what I said is 100% accurate. Gates is a leftist. Stallman is a leftist. So is this guy:


52 posted on 03/10/2007 7:16:13 AM PST by Halfmanhalfamazing (Linux, the #2 OS. Mac, the #3 OS. That's why Picasa is on Linux and not Mac.)
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To: Golden Eagle
I have an interesting one for you. Recently a blogger noticed a pattern. He got linked to once by a very popular leftist site and at another time by another very popular conservative site. He analyzed the traffic patterns of those spikes as the left and right readers, respectively, followed the links to his blog. The results:

Leftist blog: High incidence of proprietary software, abnormally high proportion of Macs. Conservative blog: Abnormally high proportion of free software, even full Linux systems.

Free software, the choice of leftists. Don't think so.

65 posted on 03/12/2007 6:47:53 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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