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Tell me, mr. Communist programmer, what good is a program... without a computer to run it on? And don't you tell me about those amazing Soviet computers since t
by the_third_wave 4y ago
Tell me, mr. Communist programmer, what good is a program... without a computer to run it on? And don't you tell me about those amazing Soviet computers since they were all cloned from western systems. No capitalism -> no computers, at least not for plebs like you and me.
- panarky 4y ago"We should improve society somewhat." "Yet you participate in society. Curious!"
- curtisblaine 4y agoThis idea that communism somehow means "improving society" is beyond belief. It's not like it's never been tried.
- josephcsible 4y agoBanning capitalism is the opposite of improving society. There's a reason that everyone who wanted to cross the Iron Curtain for a better life was trying to go from east to west.
- panarky 4y agoIt's just a tiny open source software project. It's not a Stalinist purge.
- josephcsible 4y agoWell it's not actually open source, just visible source. But anyway, yes, it is a tiny step, but it's still a step in the wrong direction.
- panarky 4y agoSeems like perfect freedom to me, freedom for the author to control how their intellectual property is used, and freedom for everyone else to use it or not. Hard to see any harm at all, certainly not "banning capitalism".
- josephcsible 4y ago> freedom for the author to control how their intellectual property is used That's power, not freedom. See https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/freedom-or-power.en.html https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/freedom-or-power.en.html