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Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Thu Sep 14 10:31:42 PDT 2000


kelley wrote:


> and it was indication to me
> of just how the open source movement would end up being coopted by c apital.

This is an endlessly repeated illusion, going back to various movements in the 17th c. and earlier. One cannot escape capitalism inside capitalism, and the attempt to do so is always futile and usually (e.g. worker ownership) aggressively reactionary. The concept is so old and so banal that it is really not worthwhile even arguing against it. Anyone who can believe it is probably immune to education.

Carrol



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