File transfer between machines is ultimately what any network is about...shared resources is the heart of a client server based network. Linux is such a client server based solution. That's sort of the way community is supposed to be. In an indigenous culture that's the case. Perhaps the Open Source community is a lot like the indigenous people in the way they share and work together. The vision of
Richard Stallman and the
Free Software Foundation create an environment of sharing and exchange that's resulted in the Android OS.
"Once I was in Victoria, and I saw a very large house. They told me it was a bank and that the white men place their money there to be taken care of, and that by and by they got it back with interest. We are Indians and we have no such bank; but when we have plenty of money or blankets, we give them away to other chiefs and people, and by and by they return them with interest, and our hearts feel good. Our way of giving is our bank." - Chief Maquinna, Nootka
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