On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Udi Finkelstein wrote:
> 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.
The reasons you have stated above have very little to do with either
'-ism' IMO. Furthermore, the inapplicability of the software example to
other RL domains, which is a conclusion I agree with, for different
reasons, also implies nothing about those same RL domains.
Uri
