GPL is much more than that. It is distributing the means of production to the tech workers.
rms is the Marx of the 20th Century. GPL is freedom from corporate oppression.
GPL is much more than that. It is distributing the means of production to the tech workers.
rms is the Marx of the 20th Century. GPL is freedom from corporate oppression.
No it's not. GPL is quite the opposite. GPL means that "you own what you buy", which is the foundation of capitalism. You own what you buy, including programs, which you can buy, replicate, modify, and sell.
Due to the nature of software, especially in the 80s, it existed in both text and binary form, which made it easy to perverse the nature of selling software from selling code to selling binaries, and big companies went even further in their collusion with the government socialists by making even re-selling even your own binaries illegal.
GPL is just trying to fight this madness with its own weapon. The GPL is an attempt to go back to capitalism of small business owners and individual service providers.
Going from the capitalism of small business owners to the market socialism of coops is a small step ;)
Well, none of the implementations of Marxism in the XX century worked like this, so I dare to disagree.
Of course, you can always say that America is exceptional, and she will have "Marxism with American characteristics", just like China switched from true socialism to "socialism with Chinese characteristics", but would still recommend avoiding the word which associates with GULAG and mass starvation.