Similarities between operating systems and political tendencies.

[Popular Front of Judea]

I just loaded a version of Linux on my donated tower. (Mint w/Cinnamon) Of course now I am being told about all the better versions that I could have loaded instead. With all the possible combinations of distributions, desktop enviroments etc. the choices are endless. Looking at the fractal tree of choices available with Linux it brings to mind the history of Trotskyism with its major divisions and ever smaller splits. Compare this with say the 'socialism in one country' evolutionary tree. That has to be the equivalent to Windows. Haven't got to Apple yet. (I am a poor boy that doesn't make his living doing graphical work.)

Has anyone else played with this idea?

[Lenina Rosenweg]

Capitalism is the OS we're using right now and it keeps giving us the the blue screen of death.Any open source alternative is preferable.

So perhaps capitalism is Windows

Left keynsianism=Krugman,Steiglitz, etc is a proprietary distribution-Red Hat Linux, etc

Socialism-a completly open source distro-Debbian ? Ubuntu

Those who are more up on the technical details could carry the analogy further.

[Remus Bleys]

Socialism-a completly open source distro-Debbian ? Ubuntu

http://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.htm (http://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html)l (http://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html) this would be communism i guess. though its crappy, so i dont want the analogy to work.

Apple is libertarian as it is irrevocably petty-bourgeoisie, childish, and hipster.

[Popular Front of Judea]

Capitalism is the OS we're using right now and it keeps giving us the the blue screen of death.Any open source alternative is preferable.

So perhaps capitalism is Windows

Left keynsianism=Krugman,Steiglitz, etc is a proprietary distribution-Red Hat Linux, etc

Socialism-a completly open source distro-Debbian ? Ubuntu

Those who are more up on the technical details could carry the analogy further.

Hmm at least with Linux there is at least there is the Linux kernel that all distros share. With socialism there is not consensus as to what it is ...

[Remus Bleys]

Hmm at least with Linux there is at least there is the Linux kernel that all distros share. With socialism there is not consensus as to what it is ...
well, you also have other unix opensource operating systems. Gnu Herd and BSD come to mind.

Just trying to muddy things up.

[Trap Queen Voxxy]

My, my, want an interesting language you guys are speaking, lol

[Lenina Rosenweg]

Wasn't Linus Torvalds (inventor of Linux)involved in left politics? According to Wikipedia, FWIW his parents were "ca,pus radicals".