-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 datawolf@ibm.net writes: > I have really never felt that Open Source was Marxist. Though many > Marxist people seem to really like the concept, it does not have the > aspect of control that Marxist governments exhibit. I've always thought > Open Source was more like anarchy. > Marxist governments? Haven't seen any of those around. :) I don't want to turn this into a political/economic/philosophical discussion, but I'd suggest reading some of Marx's unfinished 1844 manuscripts. I think the philosophical parallels between Marx's thinking and Open Source are quite interesting. > The analogy I like to use is that it's like a good-old-fashioned barn > raising. A bunch of people in a farming community would get together > and build a barn for one of the farmers. And then that farmer would > help someone else build a barn. It's mutually benificial, and totally > voluntary. This also seems like a good analogy. > > I have a theory that all political systems seek the same thing, but none > of them actually know what it is or how to attain it. :-) > > -BVG > - -- Primary Email (PGP): natedog@well.com Alternate Email (no PGP): nsaper420@yahoo.com PGP Key: http://www.well.com/user/natedog/key.pgp http://www.well.com/user/natedog/ AOL Instant Messenger: linuxfu ICQ: 64619307 finger natedog@well.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.5 and Gnu Privacy Guard iD8DBQE5ScpmUv7vZyB+cZkRAmuVAJ43hX5RFzmYr7rksz83t6Bbr+UVJQCffFIa 6TxhFk/1Ze0cj/Lr8fqy4N4= =M9tX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----