Octavio Alvarez has written: > That could be the reason behind your analogy with communism, which turns out to be out of bounds. The Free Software community is > not against trade or capitalism at all. Maybe some individuals do, but that's another story. In fact, Free Software is legally based on > Copyright law.
When I compared free software to communism I did not mean anything wrong about it so I apologize if that insulted anybody. I realize the word has a very negative "shade" for many people. What I had in mind were the principles that stood at the beginning of communism - not the twisted "implementations" that we could - and still can - see in some countries. Namely it is: 1) Cooperation of many on a common goal/product 2) Free distribution of the product to anyone (sometimes only inside the community but not always as is the case with debian) Communism can work in some instances - take a look at monasteries for example - often they are examples of a working communism, but that is relatively small scale. I just wanted to point out that this never worked on a LARGE scale, at least when the community is also supposed to reversely support all its contributors - because their life might depend on it. Cheers, Jan On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 8:10 AM, Paul Wise <p...@debian.org> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 7:35 AM, Michael Gilbert wrote: > > > #786909 was absolutely not acceptable, and was treated as such. > > Social contract #1 remains in effect and will continue to do so in > > spite of day to day bugs that violate its spirit. > > It might be interesting to think about ways we can automatically > discover such problems in future. > > lintian has privacy checks but this kind of problem doesn't seem > statically detectable to me. > > Perhaps we could run everything in $PATH in virtual machines and log > all network beyond localhost. > > -- > bye, > pabs > > https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: > https://lists.debian.org/caktje6h7qdbrxtefqvreowqehjrrebnnpbaimdbqd2yrb0c...@mail.gmail.com > >
