OpenBSD 2.7 is out

[Nathan Saper]

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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
 > 
 
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