Linked by David Adams on Mon 16th Aug 2004 17:44 UTC
I read something in one of the comments for an OSNews posting a couple weeks ago that sent me thinking. It wasn't an original or profound thought. In fact, it's a rather commonly-held opinion that happens to be quite misguided. It's an opinion summed up by the "open source = communist" meme that gets thrown around in thousands of flamewars all over the internet. In this essay, I will explore why this idea is wrong and demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of economics.
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Communism claims that society is evolving, with some kind of historical inevitability, toward the common person having more freedom and power.
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That actually is marxism, marxism described history as an inevitable process working in a comparable sense as Hegelian dialectic. Calling that communism obscures the fact that there are anarcho-communists and communist that think along the lines of marxism.
For some people it is as bad as confusing "hacker" and "cracker"