I may be responding to a troll posting, but it's a fun one, so...
   On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 12:14 AM, Troy Benjegerdes <[1]hozer@hozed.org>
   wrote:

   On Sat, Aug 02, 2014 at 07:47:39PM +0200, Lodewijk andré de la porte
   wrote:
   > 2014-08-02 19:28 GMT+02:00 Fernando Paladini
   <[2]fnpaladini@gmail.com>:
   >
   > > It's a joke, keep calm :P
   > >
   >
   > What if they actually did give that respect, but it's all been
   > propaganda'ed into oblivion?


     The Soviets had some damned good engineers and scientists, and their
     designs

     (soyuz) are still flying. The space program of the leader of the
     free world

     keeps giving more money to defense contractors. Now tell me again
     who won

     the space race?

   The Soviets also had some damned bad engineers and scientists. Someone
   in an ivory tower decides soaking seeds before planting them will make
   them grow better, the state requires it, seeds mold in the ground. How
   many die because Soviet science didn't come as an option?
   How foreign was the concept of a flush toilet to Soviet troops who
   ripped them off the walls when invading westward? They baffled that the
   toilets ceased working when leaned against a tree or a tent. Basic
   conveniences were utterly foreign to any but the heads of state and
   their chosen pets. Even where they had advances that compared to what
   was available in the west, it hardly mattered to most of the
   population.
   As to the space program, at their pinnacle they end up copying the
   Space Shuttle and other US projects, right down to the placement of
   left-handed screws. What lesson were we meant to draw here?

     War is peace, freedom is slavery, and Carl Marx was right about from
     each
     according to his ability, to each according to his need. This is
     proven
     by the market penetration of the GPLv2 linux kernel. Capitalists
     need high
     quality softare, and they cannot afford the capital to own something
     that
     actually works.

   GPL has little to nothing to do with Marx.
   GPL relies entirely on private ownership of intellectual property for
   its enforcement. Private property is GPL's very foundation. And nobody
   is compelled to use GPL licensed software, or to agree to a GPL
   license. Those who do enter into an agreement aren't even required to
   redistribute their changes unless they redistribute the derivative
   product. There's no compulsory communal property here, no Marx.
   Observe that generally, one can set up GPL and various other forms of
   voluntary communal contracts under capitalism. But that doesn't make
   capitalism communist/Marxist. It does make capitalism the more flexible
   system. One in which the GPL linux kernel is indeed doing well, along
   with countless privately owned projects.

References

   1. mailto:hozer@hozed.org
   2. mailto:fnpaladini@gmail.com