FUCKING COMMIE BASTARDS!

let me assure you, i am not huggable.

Don't get me wrong, I hate Bill Gates and Microsoft. That said....to use the term "communist" as a derogatory word is to flaunt your ignorance and nothing more. Try to find some relevant propaganda to spread if you must.

[Edited on Jan 15, 2004 by Pokesmot]

see, that's all i was getting at. in my fun loving, subtle sort of way.

i heard that bill gates gives away something like 55% of what he makes a year to charity. also, i saw a clip where he was pummeled with some cream pies (by a group of persons who's mission it is to pummel famous people with cream pies), and he thought the whole idea was hilarious. he was laughing his butt off. i don't know much about bill gates, but he seems like a good kid.

Communist

Yeah, considering the fact that there are socialist countries in the world today that have yet to succumb to tyranny. Admittedly, greed is a difficult bear to wrestle, but it is possible if there are enough checks and balances in place (personally and/or professionally).

I'll check out the book though.

... and it was going nowhere until he wrangled DOS from IBM who had very little confidence in it's future (and there's some question as to whether IBM actually it owned it to begin with). I'll give Gates credit, but not in software engineering. He's a brilliant business tactician and when he wants something, he goes full tilt until he gets it.

Blaming Stalin's reign of terror on communism is like blaming Jesus for the Spanish Inquisition.

I can point you in the direction of a couple of books that says the opposite. What Hayek was discussing is State Capitalism as practiced in the USSR and modern China. This is Marxist-Leninism and very different to a lot of current socialist-communist thought.

Empire by, Antoni Negri. This is a very complex book but worth the read.

Stranglely this book is rather good at explaining communism: Das Kapital, by Karl Marx -its amazing how few people read this, albeit it is very, very long.

Plus, any books you can find on Autonomous Marxist theory (mostly Italian intellectuals, like my SG name). This strain of neo-Marxist theory really flips the bird at anyone who thinks communism is a dreary, low growth economic system, and a tyrannical social system.

But overall I think, capitalism, communism and anarchism (especially syndicalism) have valid and useful intellectual tools to help build a better society for all...

[Edited on Jan 16, 2004 by gramsci]

um... not in russia... in russia it was the facsists and other undesireables in the camps... lest you forget your history, Stalin was not so cuddly either...
ideology shmiedeology. thats dirty fascist commie hippie talk.

what exactly is this thread about... did Bill Gates somehow purchase the very concept of open source software and then buy linux?

[Edited on Jan 16, 2004 by Nescafe]

haaaaaaaaaa!

uhm uh yeah, yeah I think I will behave on this one

LMAO!

Does anybody smell tea? Why do I smell tea?

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!

When did this thread go from 2 hot chicks discussing sharing toys to a bunch of political fussing.

Damn!

The finer things in life have lost appreciation.

Why do i feel like the thread killer?

and just incase the pic is too large

http://www.badpenguin.org/wallpapers/debugwin.jpg

Linux is the People's OS

so linux is teh commies?