[Gllug] An article for you from an Economist.com reader.

[Richard Jones]

<rant>

I really wish that people would stop writing drivel equating free
software with anti-capitalism.  Particularly, the Economist who really
should know better.

Free software is *all* about capitalism.  It encourages competition
and ruthlessly reduces costs.  This is why I can get a fully
functional operating system + office suite today for pennies.  And
when it breaks, I have a selection of experts at hand competing with
each other to minimize the price to fix it.  I can pass the savings
I've made on to my customers, in turn reducing their costs and
increasing wealth.

The opposite would be some sort of communist centralized command-
and-control economy, where the government enforces a monopoly position
and as a result prices are not driven down and people never become
better off.  Now whom does _that_ remind you of?

</rant>

Rich.

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