The abrupt merging of Nouveau
The abrupt merging of Nouveau
Posted Dec 26, 2009 21:21 UTC (Sat) by giraffedata (guest, #1954)In reply to: The abrupt merging of Nouveau by Wol
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Socialism is a mixture of capitalism and communism (Marx thought it was a stepping stone on the way to communism). So for open source to be socialist, it would still need a central authority to direct some resources. And I don't see one.
Neither socialism, communism, nor capitalism imply that government employees take stuff that rightfully belongs to others or that rich people get stuff that rightfully belongs to non-rich people, so whether that's in fact what happens when societies attempt to set up these economic systems, it really isn't relevant to the question of whether the existing open source economy is socialist, capitalist, or whatever.
Posted Jan 19, 2010 20:29 UTC (Tue)
by personman (guest, #63100)
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In my opinion, open source is anarchist, and anarchism is properly understood as a decentralized, cooperative, collectivist, libertarian-socialism.The abrupt merging of Nouveau
Decision making is largely done collectively and cooperatively, in a participatory fashion, rather than a central authority atop a hierarchy.
Socialism only requires a centralized authority if you are referring to authoritarian socialism. Libertarian-socialism (anarchism) is a different deal. My two cents...
-Andy
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