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- Cenobite, on 07/20/2008, -0/+7I'm a member of the South African Communist Party (yes, I'm a dirty commie) and I happily use Ubuntu as my main OS, and my political ideologies have nothing to do with my decision to use it; I merely chose it because I feel it's the best for me needs.
I also drive a Pontiac, but I'm not going to sell my car and walk to work or take the bus (which is basically suicide in SA), merely because I'm putting money in the pockets of General Motors or Big Oil. It's about the small compromises on one's ideals and beliefs one makes day to day for the sake of realism and convenience.
Besides, though Ubuntu is not a socialist ideal, it does come pretty darn close. - depro9, on 07/20/2008, -1/+7Im a Democratic Socialist & I run Ubuntu & I will do so till something better comes along or Ubuntu is fully free.
- BalooUrsidae, on 07/21/2008, -0/+5Debian is fully free.
- ruiacp, on 07/20/2008, -1/+6"From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs." Karl Marx
Fully true in the Free Software. - ptFoe, on 07/20/2008, -2/+6Socialist not a dirty word outside the US.
So ***** this US view. - depro9, on 07/20/2008, -1/+4Under Socialism, there is no ownership. Everything is shared by society, for the good of the people.
Sounds a lot like Stallmans GPL & everything GNU is about. - Doji, on 07/20/2008, -2/+4There is no contradiction between being libertarian and using ubuntu. Ubuntu is very much NOT socialist, and as a matter of fact I would argue that it is the pinnacle of laissez-faire and free market economics.
Ubuntu is a market response to the (more or less) monopoly of Apple and Windows. People discontented with available OSes decided to give their time, for free, to the development of an alternate os. People like Mark Shuttleworth gave their money for the personal satisfaction that comes with opening up the market to other OS alternatives. This is all still very much within the market, and NOT socialist.
Opensource code can be used to capitalize on (redhat, cedega). People working within opensource are not forced by the government to do this work for free, they do it by their own will. If they were forced, then and only then would it be socialist.
I am libertarian. I use Ubuntu. There is no contradiction. - inactive, on 07/20/2008, -2/+4Right, I completely agree. I started using Ubuntu when I called myself a "libertarian," not quite realizing to the full extent that doing so disagreed with those things in which I actually believed.
I guess I could say that I'm a socialist and a Linux user, and the fact that they are somewhat similar is just a nice bonus. - inactive, on 07/20/2008, -2/+3Right. I'd say the socialists would fit in more with the FSF (Free Software Foundation) and the capitalists would fit in more with the OSI (Open Source Initiative).
- inactive, on 07/20/2008, -1/+2I'm glad you made this point. This is exactly the sort of discussion I want to bring about.
- spikeb, on 07/21/2008, -1/+1If you're a socialist and want a distro that adheres to that view, then no, you shouldn't use ubuntu.
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