Re: [ox-en] Where / who is the enemy?

• From: graham <graham theseamans.net>
• Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 08:35:11 +0000

Stefan Merten wrote:

If we think that peer production is subversive to capitalism then who
is protecting capitalism? Classicaly this was a task for the state.
However, nowadays at least in the EU the states are quite in favor of
Free Software and things like OpenAccess.

This seems a very unreal statement to me. The state is in favour of Free
Software in roughly the same way it is in favour of direct democracy: it
would be a nice idea in theory, and we must say we like it, but in
practice it must not be used.

As far as I know there is no German government department which has
switched to use of free software (I believe there are some French ones
which encourage use of Openoffice, but no more). I do not believe any
government in the world makes use of Linux internally apart from Venezuela.

Graham
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