Free Software (was : Re: Linux for small business)

[Kevin Brown]

> > take the fruits of my labor without compensating me at all. It reads very
> > communistic.   NO THANKS!!!!
> 
> I question your understanding of communism. Under a communistic gov't the
> gov't makes decisions for you and doesn't allow you to decide your own
> future. Free Software guarantees you those same freedoms that communism
> takes away. Those freedoms are actually taken away by proprietary software.
> Hmm, are corporations the true communists?

I thought communism was where individuals worked as a group for the benefits of
each, socialism is where the government makes decisions for the citizens (at
least theoretically)

http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=communism

http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=socialism

In the case of Eastern Europe and the USSR, they never made it to true
communism, but to socialism.

In any case, given human nature, communism is a system that will only work on
the small selective scale (think communes of the 60's and 70's).