Technocrat: An Unfortunate Part of Eric Raymond's China Message | Linux Today

Technocrat: An Unfortunate Part of Eric Raymond’s China Message

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 14, 1999

[ Thanks to Dave
Whitinger
for this link. ]

“Eric Raymond writes that a story about China adopting Linux as
its official OS is a fraud. It is a fraud, and Eric is functioning
appropriately as a spokesperson within the free software community
when he says so. Eric’s been doing a pretty good job lately, and I
appreciate that….”

In order to deflect talk of Linux being a “communist
enterprise”, we need to be clear about the relationship of Free
Software (Open Source) to communism. Free software does create a
“commons”: a sort of publicly-owned property, collectively
maintained for the good of all.
Karl Marx didn’t invent that
either, it’s a critical aspect of every community, and most
capitalistic enterprises would wither without a publicly-owned
infrastructure to support them.”

Complete
Story

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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