Note that there are different kinds of communism. Besides marxist state-communism there's also libertarian communism (also known as anarchy) which has never really been tried in practice yet.
And then there's the whole debate about how Stalin made a mockery of Lenin's mockery of Marx's bad ideas, but let's not go there.
What I want to say is two things: don't knee-jerk before you think, and there is definitely an anarchistic aspect to the open source community.
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I don't think he said anything about criminalising free trade, so you can calm down now.
Note that there are different kinds of communism. Besides marxist state-communism there's also libertarian communism (also known as anarchy) which has never really been tried in practice yet.
And then there's the whole debate about how Stalin made a mockery of Lenin's mockery of Marx's bad ideas, but let's not go there.
What I want to say is two things: don't knee-jerk before you think, and there is definitely an anarchistic aspect to the open source community.