Daily reminder : Open source/free software is communism

Daily reminder : Open source/free software is communism

problem?

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Not really. Communism is when the means of production are the property of everyone. The means of production in software are knowledge and skill, things that can be aquired by everyone but not automatically given to everyone.

Good.

I paid for the whole seat, but I only need the EDGE

There is nothing wrong with communism, you libcuck.

And that is a problem why? What if 3D printers got good and could print literal cars? What, you would pay the manufacturer instead of printing a FOSH car?

It's literally not. You can't have software licenses if you don't have private property.

YOU WOULDNT DOWNLOAD A CAR

You can make profit of off free software
See;
grsecurity, rhel, suse linux enterprise and so on.

Then i guess I will use them from now on, libcuck.

Wrong.
Free software and communism are fundamentally incompatible.

Communism has always been extremely authoritarian, something which is against the core idea of free software.

A communist state would hard produce free software, because the "non-freeness" of the software it produces helps to protect the system.

>Communism has always been extremely authoritarian
If the USSR was communism then Vatican city is heaven.

The USSR was only communist in the sense that it believed in communist, it didn't actually deliver communism. (I mean the existence of the rouble alone demonstrates that.) It's an irritating quirk of English. Vatican wants to take people to heaven, USSR wanted to eventually take mankind to a classless stateless society. Neither succeeded, but you can't go around telling people that heaven is being able to bum little boys.

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I'm not even defending them, I've pretty clearly said what they tried didn't work. The fact it didn't achieve communism still proves they're all retarded, it just doesn't mean that what was achieved is suddenly transmuted into communism.

Communists are retards, every attempt at implementing communism has failed. That doesn't make communism itself centrally-planned state socialism.

W3C here, Sir Berners-Lee is still awaiting your payment for using his URI, HTTP, and HTML technologies to post on your Macedonian bird-spotting forum.

I mean, what sort of dirty commie would actually think the web should be an "open standard"? Please submit your payment via our website, after installing our thirty-two proprietary plugins in to the supported web browser (Internet Explorer 6.0) of course.

Ah sorry, have heard too many people defend communism by using that argument that I jumped the gun

Open source software is a very capitalist practice, actually. GNU/GPL is commie.

But as an ancap, I wholly support BSD/MIT licensing.

>Internet Explorer 6.0
Is there '''people''' who still use it?

>not being ancap tier with software
*helicopters rev in the distance*

>If the USSR was communism
Okay, there is a difference between the utopia Communists build in their heads and how Communism works in reality.

The USSR didn't achive Communism, but it still littered the road towards it with millions of corpses before it collapsed.

Communism doesn't work in reality. That's the point, you cannot have communism, it's not an option. By extension, what the USSR did wasn't communism. It was a failed implementation attempt. They themselves never claimed to have achieved it.

All I'm concerned with is the semantic point. I have no issue with emphasising their failure, I'm just very specific about the language used.

>>/leftypol/

You are certainly right.
And probably I should have expressed myself better.

daily reminder that it's not, go fuck yourself

You do realize conservatives are more against communism than liberals?