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.
They must’ve forgotten than Linux’s code contributions these day mostly comes from companies such as Intel, Microsoft, Facebook etc.
Same is true for many other FOSS projects too. And open standards are mostly created by companies that collaborate because the industries as a whole will benefit from working well together as ecosystems.