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Open Source Code Finds Way into Microsoft Release
linumax tells us eWeek is reporting that Microsoft, for the first time, has included open source code in the release of one of their products. The Complete Cluster Edition of Windows Server 2003 will be including the Message Passing Interface (MPI) library. From the article: "MPI is key middleware that was designed by a consortia of all the supercomputing vendors in the 1990s to allow the easy portability of code. It abstracts away things like low-latency interconnect, and our focus is making it super easy for ISVs to move their code."
Try to say "I should get less than some people", it is logically equivalent but somehow much harder to pronounce :-)
"Some" is not the negation of "most".
Reality is fluffy!
Communism doesn't fail horribly in practice. It's being successfully used by a large portion of the human race even as we speak.
Most of the venom attached to communism lies in the fact that we have been propagandised to equate communism with dictatorship, when it's actually an economic system that could just as easily be run as a democracy. It doesn't really have much to do with individuals having more "stuff", it has to do with private vs public ownership of the means of production.
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Actually, as a rule, communism doesn't fail horribly. For example, people in Cuba live much better than their neighbours in Haiti. People in North Korea live better than people in Bangladesh. People in Soviet Union in 1960-1980s lived better than people pretty much everywhere. If you don't beleive me (and chances are you don't), just check historical ratings of human development from the UN. By 1980s Soviet Union was in world top 10 for most of the relevant quality of life indicators. And all that done without colonial exploitation.
If communism had a chance to be implemented in the USA, for example, most of you (excluding Bill Gates, Michael Jackson, George Bush, etc.) would be able to maintain their standards of living, but stop exploiting the third world.
P.S. Just don't rely on American sources too much. Because of the (Cold) War they weren't objective, sadly.
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