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Why would it be called a communist pipe dream? It’s not mandated by the government and doesn’t use tax revenue. Open source already existed and was thriving so I’m still not getting why there was any doubt. Seems like it would have just been FUD from the encyclopedia industry and people who didn’t know about open source.
Well for starters some americans think biden is a commie, so its not like logic really comes into play when americans use "communist" as an insult. That said, i dont think tax revenue supported infrastructure is really the definition of communism either.
Communism usually requires social ownership. Wikipedia is not owned by “the people”.