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• aeshna23

  2009-01-26 00:52:03

  I don't care what Marxist say about their religion, but "monopoly" is that first word that comes to mind when I hear the word "Marxism". "Genocide" is a close second.

• Roy Schestowitz

  2009-01-26 00:59:08

  How is this related to the story that involves software?

• twitter

  2009-01-26 01:53:49

  The relation, I presume, is that most people calling themselves "Marxist" in the 20th century were autocrats and responsible for some of the largest mass murders in history. I don't know enough about Kerala to know how and if the Marxists there are like those others but I can say that I don't like their collusion with M$/Novell and their poor treatment of free software advocates. Boycott Novell has told the story well so far and the situation is worth monitoring.
  
  Autocrats will always oppose software freedom along with other freedoms but they will happily appropriate your work then jail, beat or murder those who protest. It is not surprising that autocrats gravitate towards M$ and other non free software because these are excellent tools to control press and monitor communications. GNU/Linux, pollluted by M$ and other wise without freedom, can be just as bad as M$ Windows.

• Roy Schestowitz

  2009-01-26 08:10:53

  Prebuilt GNU/Linux can be used in the same way (like in China where they force use of one distribution).

• aeshna23

  2009-01-26 15:07:39

  To answer Roy, I agree with what Twitter said, but I also was thinking of the huge state-run monopolies that were characteristic of all Communist governments except debatably Yugoslavia. A single operating system to rule them all and in the darkness bind them is exactly what a Communist regime would want.
  
  Of course, there is a slight difference that the Communist Party in India has been elected democratically in a few states and can be voted out of power. Their hand isn't as free as in Stalin's Russia. Still, a Communist Party isn't going to encourage diversity in thought or the empowerment people to make their own decisions--which makes them natural allies of Microsoft.

• Roy Schestowitz

  2009-01-26 15:18:37

  Diversity in thought is hardly encouraged in any society for that matter. People are tamed, or made indoctrinated.