Re: The basic fact about the free software movement

From: John Hasler (john_at_dhh.gt.org)
Date: 06/16/04 

Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 16:49:19 -0500

SchroedingerzKat writes:
> I've always equated free software with socialism. It truly is a
> socialist system that actually works to some extent.

Only in the original 19th century meaning of socialism. Now socialism is
generally equated with state control of the means of production. Free
Software is the antithesis of that. Microsooft's monopoly, on the other
hand, is a creature of the state (i.e., a corporation) as are the laws that
protect its monopoly. 

-- 
John Hasler 
john@dhh.gt.org
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, Wisconsin

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