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Gates Elaborates on IP Communists
justin_w_hall writes "In part four of his interview with Gizmodo, big Bill Gates discusses his recent 'communist' labeling of supporters of free culture - and gets into detail about his rationale concerning Microsoft's position on DRM. Other parts of the interview: part 1, part 2, part 3."
Mod parent up for actually understanding what communism is.
He's using the term communist not as an insult, but as an example. The term communism has be twisted around by our (the US) goverment during the world wars to actually be totalitarianism/Marxism. Those two ideas have nothing to do with communism.
Now people get off your M$ bashing high horses and get back to class. Try to learn something.
You misunderstand Marxist systems. In a communist / socialist system the government owns everything too. The people own nothing. The communist party controls the government. So only those with high rank in the communist party have power or control over everything. The idea of communism was to have classless society controlled by a union of workers. What really happens is they exchanged a wealthy elite class to a party elite class. The US discovered massive corruption occurs when unions get too powerful. That's exactly what happens under socialism because the workers union becomes so powerful they stop representing the workers and greed becomes the game. Which is also a major problem with the US congress, they have stopped representing their districts and states and are most representative of whatever special interest pays the most. Open source is more like some native american and Hmong cultures, nobody owns the land. There are no property rights everyone can share. The GPL keeps people sharing and prevents someone from stealing the shared property. In this case the property is intellectual.
Your confusing communism with socialism.
Socialism and democracy are somewhat similiar but kind of incompatible since one refers to an economic model.
Communism is a repressive form of dictarship similiar to fascism. The communists in Russia happened to be socialistic as well but many groups consider the royal family of Saudi Arabia communistic even though they are capitalists. China is still as communist as ever but is now a capitalistic society.
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