[lbo-talk] Ubuntu stuff

[Miles Jackson]

Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> On Aug 18, 2009, at 12:07 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote:
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>> is there a *social* advantage to doing things the open source way?
>
> I'm not sure how it's exactly "socialist." The programmers do their 
> work for free, meaning they have to have other means of support. So 
> they're doing the work in their spare time. That really doesn't 
> transform social relations, does it?
>
> Is our model a world in which programmers - and musicians and writers 
> - don't get paid for their work?
>
> Doug 

Well, that's just my point.  In my ideal socialist society, there are no 
wages, so yes, people would not be paid to do programming.  (I can 
dream, can't I?)

Miles