[Ilugc] [ILug-C] Elcot marries Microsoft - A love story !!
- From: a.mani.cms@xxxxxxxxx (A. Mani)
- Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 22:57:08 +0530
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 10:59 AM, kenneth gonsalves
<lawgon at thenilgiris.com> wrote:
On Thu, 2011-10-13 at 05:17 +0000, Nataraj S Narayan wrote:
?But fundamentally communism is about collective ownership and freeing
resources ?from private ownership, say, the idea that ?all the Land
should be owned by the state, very much akin to what FOSS is doing in
technology.
please do not talk rubbish. Have you read even a *single* work of Marx,
Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Mao?? Have you ever heard of the term
'Dictatorship of the proletariat'?
FOSS is not defined in terms of the relationship of software to
ownership. But ends up being opposed to corporate dictatorships.
In fact many FOSS licenses have components that are not really
compatible with capitalism.
"Dictatorship of proletariat" does not fully define communist method
of running states. The reference to 'dictatorship' is in the sense of
something opposed to "autocracy of capitalists". According to Marx,
communist states and their management should evolve from objective
reality ... this ends up meaning different levels of decentralisation
of power, democracy, etc. Yes communism would be FOSS compatible.
But FOSS does not by itself yield communism. It can of course be
argued that even within plutocratic systems FOSS will guarantee a
certain amount of social welfare on the people.
As different types of activists support FOSS, it will be best to
proceed in an issue-based manner.
As far as the original topic is concerned, TN GOVT's DECISION SMELLS
OF SCAMS LIKE 2G and ...
Best
A. Mani
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