Freddy Freeloader wrote: > GNU/Linux has more in common with freedom of choice than anything else. > It's originators my not see that, or have had it in mind, but the fact > is it does. It doesn't require coercion or attempt to force anyone to > do things exactly the same as everyone else. It is a decentralized way > of doing things. > > Socialism is just the opposite when put into practice. It centralizes > all power over individual preferences and decisions in the hands of the > government.
You're confusing totalitarianism with socialism and doing great disservice to most British commonwealths and much of the European Union in the process by doing so. > I value freedom of expression, freedom of religion, and personal > privacy. GNU/Linux is very compatible with all of those concepts. So does Socialism. > GNU/Linux also gives the poor man a helping hand. Exactly like Socialism. > To tell the truth I see very little of the core of socialism in any part > of Linux. Even the core kernel development is decentralized. Linus > does only a very small part of actual development anymore. It's his > idea and implementation so he rightly holds a fair amount of power of > the kernel, but the process of kernel development most definitely isn't > a centralized one. If it were centralized there wouldn't have been more > than 2000 developers from all walks of life adding patches to it in the > last year. And in true socialism Linus would have had to give up his > entire power over the process, which I see as a truly stupid idea. You truly have confused totalitarianism with socialism. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
