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Jul. 20th, 2008 02:09 pmAnarchism and the Open Source Movement
"So if the open source approach works so well for software, why not use it everywhere? Why not make an open source society? These are the questions the ruling establishment desperately hopes you won't ask. Passive, isolated consumers are the life-blood of the corporate oligarchy, and that makes open source anything an enormous threat. As more and more of us turn to mutual cooperation to solve our problems, the elite will be faced with a question of their own: If anarchism is so impractical, why is it working?"
"So if the open source approach works so well for software, why not use it everywhere? Why not make an open source society? These are the questions the ruling establishment desperately hopes you won't ask. Passive, isolated consumers are the life-blood of the corporate oligarchy, and that makes open source anything an enormous threat. As more and more of us turn to mutual cooperation to solve our problems, the elite will be faced with a question of their own: If anarchism is so impractical, why is it working?"