Internet taxation is on the way!

[Michael Haney]

On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Ignazio Palmisano <ignazio_io at yahoo.it> wrote:
> 2010/4/7 Amedee Van Gasse (ub) <amedee-ubuntu at amedee.be>:
>> On Wed, April 7, 2010 16:13, Ignazio Palmisano wrote:
>>
>>> Me neither, but I call it "common sense". Why would anybody work for
>>> something that is not a good thing for them? In the Linux case, there
>>> is no cash moving hands (meaning I don't need to pay to enjoy it, not
>>> that there is no cash moving at all). Anyone wants to label that a
>>> socialist OS, they can, as far as I'm concerned. Whether they have a
>>> point, I'd say no...
>>
>> There is a lot of cash moving in Linux. Mostly in services (the economy of
>> bits), but most people only look at products (the economy of atoms).
>
> Agreed, that's what I meant by saying "not that there is no cash
> moving at all [in the Linux case]". My point is that one can show up
> empty handed and still walk away with something of value. Someone was
> leveraging this to push the point that this makes the OS a socialist
> one; I don't think that's the case, it's like saying time is green. Or
> red :-P.
>

There's nothing in the GPL that says you can't make money off Linux.
If you do you need to make the change you make accessible to others
(ie; the source code).  This is how Redhat was able to grow into the
company it is today.  If the GPL restricted making money from open
source software (ie; Linux) then Redhat, the company, wouldn't exist.
There is absolutely nothing Socialist about open source.  In fact is
more Capitalist than Closed Source.

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