I was recently directed to a site that was, well, horrifying.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/lora/m.lora22.html

At lewrockwell.com, there is now an article, explaining that Linux is a capitalist thing. After some googling, I found a few other items that make similar claims.

I won't argue communism/capitalism here, but would it be presumptuous to say that the Linux/OSS community as a whole would disagree that Linux can be called capitalist?

To Manuel Lora and Juan Ramón Rallo, I'd say (loudly): Read the books* and know the history.

Blasphemy.


* _Just For Fun_ and _The Cathedral and the Bazaar_

I would say that Linux is not a bastion of capitalism (either good or bad aspects thereof) but is clearly not communist either, as claimed by certain commentators. I agree with the point that consumer freedom is central to the basic principles of a free society. Read into that what you will.

I'm not sure I understand your point. They are reacting to Steve Ballmer calling Linux communist. There is nothing "horrifying"--just their take on the whole phenomenon.
You want horrifying, just read the various utterances from the MS axis---their motives are transparent and are not good.

Communist vs Capitalist has little to do with collaborative projects. things like Open Source can--and do-- live in any economic/political system.

as said Communist vs Capitalist has little to do with collaborative projects. things like Open Source. Communist, Capitalist and Liberal etc are so badly defined so it could be anything just ask the rigth person.