Now I feel all awkward 'n stuff for liking Soviet kitsch before it
was cool, and being an open-source programmer shortly after it was
cool, but not stopping when it was cool.
Patrick, it seems to me that you're overreacting by construing the
open-source movement as necessarily political in nature in the
first place. While I suppose it's possible (sweet Jesus, after the
past few years I have to admit any idiocy is possible) for
open-source to be declared as illegal and/or immoral, I simply have
to imagine that this would be one more nail in America's coffin. If
we're that g--d---- stupid, as my grandfather would have put it, we
deserve Darwin to kick in.
But when companies other than Microsoft see themselves
threatened in this way, I think they'll react. So the notion of
"political stupidity" really doesn't factor in. And the Commie
kitsch is great if you ask me. I'm a sucker for Soviet art. Always
have been, always will be. So seeing more of it, associated with
something I consider to be expression of the inevitable force of
history, well, I go all goose-pimply, tovarishch.
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