[plug] Opportunity for PLUG and Linux?

[John Knight]

It depends on what your definition of capitalist is and whether or not some 
of your friends are communists. Anyway, enough of that or otherwise we'll 
start another useless argument that'll annoy other 'pluggers' by taking up 
their box. No dictionary definitions either!

Anyway, what about the idea itself?

>
>On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, John Knight wrote:
> > The benefits of open source in comparison to normal Capitalist OSes like
> > 'Windoze', MacOS, BeOS etc.
>
>How can a centrally-controlled operating system with severe legal
>restrictions explicitly preventing any competition for itself and its
>peripheral services market be considered even remotely capitalist?
>
>Operating systems whose very existences rely on government-imposed
>restrictions on the market are inherently anti-capitalistic.
>
>-Greg
>
>


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