Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.albasani.net!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: aminer Newsgroups: comp.programming.threads Subject: Free Software and Open source and capitalism Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2014 07:26:44 -0700 Organization: albasani.net Lines: 37 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.albasani.net AUgZIDUy3VH0IpHstqNehEWPCmQuT61SlPK7TZKWBKsbbOvUFcbCg0oKXiqS6rzkghoEt6iMVx0J7mXa3tM3Gw== NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2014 23:26:29 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: news.albasani.net; logging-data="k+FLOtk2eDV6hw7xNbwDJkhqLAhp50mV5f4jmT2OsSLEwoWxeM31rvJpPXLh4+DHiyxi8Hk78NHO+Y9tkR+indbaxrVVtskO3a4mH+/X6MWttAyQTcOXPWOasmN3diFy"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@albasani.net" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:2IwKQeN4hlEpUCPQfPCFR2Ax1a8= Xref: csiph.com comp.programming.threads:2439 Hello, I was thinking more and more and i think that Open source and Free software has develloped in reaction to capitalism, the capitalist system do parcipate to social darwinism cause you can not climb the social ladder if you don't have enough money to pay for the operating system and for the compiler and for the database system etc. and to pay for leaning and if you don't have enough money you can not cross or climb the social ladder, so the capitalist system is very bad for the weaker humans amongs us humans, this is why the Free software and Open source have come in reaction to the captalistic system that do participate a lot to social darwinism, so the "intentions" of Free software and Open source are good i think, cause they have tried to help the weaker humans among us that do not have money to buy softwares and operating systems or to pay for learning... but i think the Open source and Free software have failed since if the software is free and doesn't cost money it will make the life difficult for developpers that wants to sell there softwares, so i think that even the Open source and Free Software are thus participating to social darwinism. Thank you, Amine Moulay Ramdane.