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Re: Linux & Socialism in TAU
On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Udi Finkelstein wrote:
>On Tue, 13 Apr 1999 23:26:00 +0300 (IDT), roih@altavista.net 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.
Actually the reasons are far more complex, and the effect of applying them
is FAR FAR worse than what you imply. You wouldn't know, however, there
are others on this list who DO know. BTW they are here and not there ;)
Peter