On Tue, 13 Apr 1999 23:26:00 +0300 (IDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>Shalom,
>
>According to an advertisement I saw today in Tel-Aviv University, the
>Hadash (Communist Party) student group will hold tomorrow (Wednesday)
>at 18:00 in Gilman 277 a meeting  in which someone called Gadi
>Koozma will speak about "Linux: Socialism in the Sphere of Software".

See http://agalmics.nu/

The problem is that what works for the software world, may not work for the
non-software world. If I've just finished a kernel patch, millions of people
will enjoy my code while it wouldn't cost me anything. OTOH, giving away
material goods (such as money) means you no longer have these goods.

>Assuming this is not the remains of some April fools day joke, it
>looks like it could be fun.

It can be interesting, but any attempts to imply on the applicability of
socialism or communism for real world economy is a joke, for the reasons I
have stated above.

>---
>Roi

udi



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