On: Write libraries instead of services, where possibl...

[RohMin]

How are we to survive then

[aloisdg → RohMin]

by switching from a competitive money driven world to a cooperative one.

[Toutouxc → aloisdg]

Great, when does the spaceship launch?

[aae42 → Toutouxc]

as if a spaceship launching anywhere would change anything

[lamp987 → aloisdg]

Communism doesn't work.

[smoe → lamp987]

Maybe, if we could finally get out of the cold war mindset, we might realize that there are more than two black/white options to run a society.

[selfhoster11 → lamp987]

I agree that communism failed, bo capitalism has failed too where it's not tightly regulated by the government to cull its worst tendencies.

[mnsc → lamp987]

Capitalism doesn't work.

[0xbadcafebee → lamp987]

Of course it "works", there's been multiple countries run on it and continue to run on it. What you mean to say is you don't like it.

[lamp987 → 0xbadcafebee]

Such as? In which countries did it work?

[jyounker → lamp987]

The communist party was pretty successful in helping to overthrow the Portugese dicatorship in the early '70s, but they were also democrats. They're still one of the major political parties in Portugal, and you see ads for the communist party everywhere.

The Indian state of Kerala is the most advanced, well run, and successful region of the country. On development indexes it ranks with the poorer regions of the EU. It's also largely a communist state, but once again the communists are democrats.

[msla → 0xbadcafebee]

Just to head this off: Sweden isn't Communist or Socialist.

[asdff → RohMin]

I forgot all those GNU developers are currently in poverty asking for alms in the street...