Re: [OS:N:] When CNN says it...

[Evan Leibovitch <evan telly org>]

On 6 Sep 2002, Colin Mattoon wrote:

> Indeed, and this is also part of a perception problem among IT and
> school administrators (at least throughout much of North America).
> Many, perhaps most, tend to confuse totalitarian governments with
> communism, and do not recognize that capitalism and totalitarian also
> often co-exist as fascism, just as communism and democratic principles
> are not mutually exclusive.

May be, but if you ever come across a communist democracy, let me know.

In any case, I had a shot at the "Linux and Communism" issue in a column I
did for ZDNet more than two years ago:

http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2591417,00.html

Read it with an open mind. It was the third of a three-part series that I
did on the ethics of the GPL versus BSD licensing approaches. For anyone
who cares, here are parts one and two:
http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2582875,00.html
http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2587033,00.html

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Evan Leibovitch, Brampton, Canada <evan at telly dot org>
Anything not worth doing is not worth doing well.