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If you don't share, you get thrown in jail or killed.
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In 1990, we got a visit from a director
of an institute in uh, Moscow University,
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and actually I saw him in Helsinki just 2 weeks ago,
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but in any event, he came by,
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and Richard Stallman had suggested
that he visit Cygnus,
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because he was interested in and
understanding how the Free Software model...
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might apply to stimulating entrepreneurial
innovation in Russia of all places,
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and we had been kind of secretive
about our business plan,
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because you know, we were'nt really
sure it's gonna work,
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we didn't want to look too stupid if it failed.
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But I was very very open with him.
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The more I told him,
the more he started to shake his head like this,
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and I finally said, you know, "What's wrong?"
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And he said, "This sounds to much like communism
to be successful in Russia."
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You got to go a Gulag and end up in a mass grave
with a bullet in the back of your head.
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Open Source is not communism
because it does'nt force people.
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Carl Marx did not invent helping your neighbor.
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It's not communist to have a commons,
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A commons existed long before communism as
a philosophy of government.
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there are many commons in our lives,
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For example, we drive on the highway,
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something that is maintained for our common good.
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Actually labeling our business model...
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means that it misses the point a little bit.
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whether it's communist, or whether it's capitalist,