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Re: Open Source Dictatorships

Author:Jeremy Bowers
Posted:8/13/1999; 8:18:06 AM
Topic:Re: Open Source Dictatorships
Msg #:9456
Prev/Next:9455 / 9457

Simple answer to Dave's question: It's still a bazaar because you get to choose which dictorship's products you want to use, or choose which dictatorship you want to work under (which tends not to be true for real-world dictatorships).

As with any one-sentance answer to a potentially complicated question, that may leave a bit out and blur the edges a bit.

Other random thoughts:

After all, it's just a metaphor. It doesn't have to carry the strongly negative connotations it does in the real world.

Look for Microsoft to pick up on this... just kidding. If Linux kernal development is a dictatorship, what does that make Microsoft? An Orwellian, 1984 society?


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