Linux Licensing: barriers to developers (ZDNet)

Posted Oct 5, 2005 15:39 UTC (Wed) by lutchann (subscriber, #8872) [Link]

Since it's posted on their "ZDNet Blogs" site I'm assuming that it's not supposed to be a "real" article and isn't held to the same editorial standard.

Posted Oct 17, 2005 21:11 UTC (Mon) by alext (guest, #7589) [Link]

Besides
"take from each individual according to the individual's abilities, and give to each individual according to that individual's needs"
is wrong. In the case of Free Software development it is a case of taking according to the contributors ability * time and giving to everyone equally. Each person gets the same rights over the particular item (plus any rights due to and over their specific contribution).

If my need concerning the particular tool is greater than yours I have to add the features myself or find someone willing to do the adding for me. Which might involve paying them.

So some serious flaws as usual in the Marx invocation.

Interestingly a recent BBC poll for the greatest philosopher was won by Marx. So the tendency of people to utter the name intending others to quake fearing the loss of their jobs and consumer goods might be a failing gambit.