Linux is as capitalist as it gets. On par with BSD and Windows.
As someone with "some knowledge" of political economy, I have to disagree, and I'm not being politically partisan about it. To be a capitalist, you must be an owner of capital. The licenses utilised by Linux make this somewhat difficult, to put it mildly. Applied to information goods, such license are closer to a free market, as distribution will be equal to marginal cost (unlike damaged goods), and a certainly available for bespoke commercial activity. But to describe Linux as being as "capitalist" like BSD or MS-Windows is simply incorrect. Regards, -- Lev Lafayette, BA (Hons), MBA, GCertPM mobile: 0432 255 208 RFC 1855 Netiquette Guidelines http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt