In any case the comparison to Soviet Russia immediately falls on its face. I own my house, I own my business, I own my car and dozens of other things. It is annoying when people try and make comparisons between things when very superficially they are similar but they aren't even remotely close in scale or severity.
He said "when I grew up.." Russia was a completely different country back then. He is referring to the cold war era.
but isn't that at least in part what is supposed to be so great about Linux and related bits?
not everything that is Linux is open source and free. Linux it self yes maybe i should add the word "hardly"
It's a naive, domestic operating system without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.