[CS-FSLUG] FOSS Communists {WAS} WHY THE TEN COMM...

[Josiah Ritchie]

On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 10:47, Ed Hurst wrote:
> On Friday 02 July 2004 08:06, Josiah Ritchie wrote:
> > Interesting, as an off-shoot discussion... Aren't communism values
> > much the same mindset as OpenSource software? Perhaps communism just
> > has a bad name because fallible humans are the only beings we've seen
> > try to make it work.
> >
> > Of course, FOSS could also be seen as a democratic effort. In
> > general, developers on a project only are there if they want to be
> > and they have a say in the direction of the project. Still, there
> > efforts support the entirety of the community with little return
> > beyond gratitude in most cases.
> 
> I prefer to think of FOSS development as taking something from several 
> models, but not wholly one thing or another. If anything, I'd say it 
> comes closer to libertarian philosophy, in that there is hardly any 
> regimentation at all. What there is of that is strictly internally 
> derived, and anyone is free to depart the structure if they can't work 
> with it. Communism assumes there must be a final veto from someone or 
> some committee somewhere, and it covers every aspect of life.
> 
> Fallible humans are probably the only ones who would *want* to make 
> communism work.

Thanks Ed. As always... insightful and thought provoking. :-)