Open source software is also known as "free software". However, its advocates acknowledge that name is misleading in that it sounds, at first hearing, as if the software costs nothing. "Free", in this context, means users are free to modify the software for their own purposes. As its advocates like to say, it means "free speech, not free beer".
Numerous sources[1] [2], including Steve Ballmer[3], one of the driving minds behind the success of Microsoft, have claimed that the Open Source movement is inherently Communist. Both Free Software and Communism shun the idea of personal property, instead favoring a communal ownership where no single entity has control or authority.
Open source has been shown to cost the U.S. software industry billions of dollars.
Additionally proponents of open source are usually leftists who believe that everything should be free, and shun the idea of payment and cost, instead embracy the commune nature of its development. Despite open source's inherent lack of ability to produce quality software (because with free software no one has any profit incentive per [[Milton Friedman]].
The open source movement is closely allied with the Democrat party and donated millions of dollars to campaign funds and gay awareness seminars.<ref>[[http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Linux-and-Open-Source/Democrats-Tap-Open-Source/]]</ref>
Owing to the nature of open source software, many variants of a Linux distribution may be created by using the original code and making changes to it to suit a particular need. For example, there is also a Ubuntu Christian Edition.[4]
Conversely there is also a more well known edition called Ubuntu satanic edition, this highlights the demographics of open source communities, namely they are non-christian and left leaning.
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