On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, rexonf wrote:
It is a [small] move towards communism. Does not mean of course that the
government will move towards an extreme degree of communism in which my
clothes are owned by the state.
No it's not. Sharing of a resource is not eclusive to communism. It is
also Christian and democratic. You are abstracting one small -- and
non-unique -- part of communism and using it as a basis for definition.
That is a logical error.
I am not trying to turn anybody off the GPL. I am merely saying that the
GPL is communist, but people who are averse to communism should not reject
the GPL. Because their aversion to communism is merely a product of FUD.
When communism works, as in the case of the GPL, every fun loving human
being should embrace it.
Communism doesn't work in the GPL at all, becuase none of the GPL is
communist. Using characteristics that are not unique to communism as a
means to identify something as communist also involves a logical error.
Using the same thinking, one can argue that the GPL is democratuic,
capitalist, Christian, Jewish, etc.
God blesa!
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