I have seen a lot of people compare Linux/FOSS to Communism over the years. Some of it is jokingly with an undercurrent of seriousness like you might find on reddit’s r/linuxmemes or similar stuff like the bugs bunny “Our whatever” memes. Some of it is serious comments like the old Steve Balmer mudslinging (despite him somewhat changing his opinion later)
Figure that most of the crowd here, like myself, probably aren’t big fans of communism. Just curious if that is something that annoys you guys too or not?
What kind of things you might point out to sometime who seriously thought this to convince them otherwise?
Personally, I think of the FOSS movement as being more similar to Libertarianism than to Communism but curious what others here think.
Yeah I think that might be a better way to put it. He did get really angry at his friend making money off emacs.
But mostly listening to him talk he would go on a on about how compiled code could do anything and you wouldn’t know. And that this is oppression. So you should always have the source code. He won’t read websites in a browser. He downloads the html and reads offline in a little netbook that has a open source firmware.