But you see... (Score 1)

But you see... Linux is communist, or at the least Anarcho-Syndicalist. Its not a bunch of freedom loving libertarians starting up a flexible new economy operating system corporation, its a bunch of people producing a good for no reason other than some vaguely defined 'community spirit' and a dislike for microsoft. The fact that it actually seems to be working in a non-coercive manner (unlike the totalitarian socialist states which ended up enslaving 99.9% of the population to meet production quotas), is probably very appealed to latter day Socialist out there in China. The end result of this could reach beyond even the OS community (if China slows down on market reforms, since 'Linux' has provided some imaginary alternative to a modern free market economy...)