Some prominent people have called free software “communist” in an attempt to bring Cold War bugaboos to bear against the movement—a kind of “nuclear option” of FUD. I remember the paranoia of the Cold War personally, and I thought then (and I still do now) that it was “just stupid”.
So rather than react as some have done with a knee-jerk “no it’s not!”, I propose to accept the label and see where that insight takes us. Maybe there is something communist about free software? I think we will see, however, that the idea behind free software is far more radical: no less “communist” than “capitalist”, but no more so, either.
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P.S. End in site for Yugoslav domains (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8278364.stm)
Websites using the .yu domain extension will cease to be available online from the 30th of September; in other words, the ICANN is finishing up the job NATO started earlier...
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