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Is Microsoft Really A Communist Agency?

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Aloone_Jonez:
I always see Linux as more communist than Microsoft which is purely capitalist.

That reminds me. :D
http://www.shelleytherepublican.com/2007/02/28/linux-the-official-os-of-the-axis-of-evil.aspx
http://www.kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2002/09/18/free-software-socialism-death/

dirtrider702:
I see it completely different in that Linux is in no way communist quite the opposite actually. Communism means centralized control of all means of production and goods and services. It centrally manages the economy through deliberate social control and all goods and services are owned publicly. Now FOSS is completely different consider reading the "Cathedral and the Bazaar" for a good example Free Software is the bazaar , Open Source has NO centralized control and is completely free and decentralized much like a free market economy where the market freely decides supply and demand. If you actually read the GNU GPL Open Source software is actually NOT public domain and it is copyrighted with what is called copyleft. Basically it guarantees four thing's :
the freedom to use the software for any purpose,
the freedom to change the software to suit your needs,
the freedom to share the software with your friends and neighbors, and
the freedom to share the changes you make.
But this does not mean the Software is publicly owned and there are restrictions on what you can do with the source code which is owned by the source code creator under the GPL.
Communism is not freedom like Free and Open source software plain and simple. 

Aloone_Jonez:
What happened in the communist states is not what most communists wanted to happen, quite the opposite in fact. Most communists don't want a large oppressive state, they want socialism, they don't want anyone owning anything, they want freedom. It's not possible in reality because of human nature.

FOSS is  more similar to what most communists want which is a lot of what you've described above: the freedom for something to be owned by the community, used and improved by everyone. Of course, it's senseless to apply concepts such as socialism to software which doesn't exist in the physical sense.

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