[sclug] Cheap'n'nasty Tesco Linux machines

[Tom Carbert-Allen]

here here

I wish people would stop darkening the name of 
communism/socialism/marxism by both suggesting that communist countries 
are evil and by re-stating that evil dictators who claim to be communist 
are showing us how bad an idea communism is.

FOSS show that the socialist ideals do actually work rather well, and 
can dispell many a myth about there production rate being slower, or 
quality poorer.

Anywant want to stand as a SWP member for Reading?

TCA

John Stumbles wrote:
> Dickon Hood wrote:
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>> That software -- or, as you've stated *anything* copyrightable --
>> television programme, film, book, or recording, was not produced for
>> nothing: it takes resources to produce all of these things.
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>> Is it not morally and ethically right to allow the entity which spent
>> those resources some mechanism to recover those costs?  Surely it isn't
>> ethical to deny a writer or a filmmaker the fruits of their labour?
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> Well there is an alternative (as yet untried (at least in modern 
> industrialised societies)):
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> From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.
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> Discuss ;-)
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