On Dec 11, 2007 12:10 PM, Paul Lussier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > F/OSS if you really want to whittle down to what it promotes in > political terms is very far from communism.
The labels "Free Software", "Open Source", FOSS, etc., get used to mean a lot of things. They all mean generally the same thing, but different people intend different nuances when they use them. (Same with "communism", for that matter.) So nobody (not you, not me) can say what it's "really" about. :) For example, I think it's accurate to say that some of the people promoting FOSS also want "intellectual property" in general to be abolished. That would, indeed, eliminate "ownership" of software. (Note that I'm not speaking to the merit of that idea, just that some people want it.) > There is nothing about economics in the F/OSS movement. I'd disagree with that. There are economic factors tangled up in FOSS. But then, there's usually something about economics in everything. Ultimately, economics comes down to a practical application of the Law of Conversation of Energy, and you don't ever escape that. Ever. -- Ben _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
