When the idea of sharing software comes up, people frequently break out in debates over Capitalism vs. Communism. It doesn't take long before someone starts equating - derisively, no less - sharing software with Communism. But since when did the Communists corner the market on sharing?

Charles Robert Darwin is famous for his theory of evolution by a process which he termed natural selection. Today we are going to attempt to stretch Darwin’s theories to cover software as well.

Simply put, socialism is a process of control of resources by a community or state in varying degrees. So the big question is does the Free Software movement enjoy any relation with socialist ideology ?

There is in fact a coming divide that will hit the Linux community like a freight train. The battle lines have already been drawn, and companies that support Linux, such as Canonical, will eventually find themselves fiercely pitted against companies like Linspire, who only a short time ago, entered into an agreement of cooperation.

A very recent discussion of the "communist" smear against Free software

I don t know really what is autocad , I think a 2D design software. Apparently it s a big news for linux community since there were no software like that before.
Coming from Reddit , thought I should put it there.

I often hear people referring to Open Source and Free Software advocates jokingly, or not so jokingly, as "communists" or "hippies". Rubbish!

BEING A BIT OF A GEEK can surely bring you a bit of extra notice in some circles. The tee-shirt emblazoned with: "No, I will not fix your computer" is an example of the favour of such notice. Be that as it may, we are sometimes lured into lending a helping hand to our less technically inclined brethren from time to time.

A poem about the impact of the process of software compilation over Freedom. Who can affirm that the meal we give you to eat is in correlation with the recipe we said it was made of ? Provocative thought.