I see the anarchist community divided. I say most of them are free software and free culture supporters. Others, will see something like the NC license and think that it is anti-capitalist (when in fact it retains commercial monopoly just like traditional "all rights reserved").
anyways, i heard this from a fellow anarchist who also thought the CS community was ridiculous On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 14:10, Rob Myers <[email protected]> wrote: > On 03/03/2011 07:01 PM, Gabriel Perez wrote: > >> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 12:37 AM, sarvōdaya >> <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> I can't decide to be happy or sad. On one hand, this is great, but >> on the other hand, CouchSurfing should be free software. IIRC, the >> only reason it isn't is because the people in charge are anarchists >> (which is great) *but* they are afraid of making their software free >> because it can then be exploited for profit. >> >> These are very strange anarchists then. >> > > The strongest opponents of free culture and free software tend to be > anti-capitalist "radicals" such as anarchists and marxists in my experience. > > The capitalists tend to work out they can still make a buck and stop > complaining after a while. ;-) > > - Rob. > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss > -- .sarvōdaya [𝄽#] The Silent Number http://thesilentnumber.me/ ☮♥Ⓐ
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