Most of these authors probably grew up in the time of the Cold War, and thus grew up being taught the propaganda the US govt. I'm not defending or even promoting communism, so don't anyone misconstrue my comments as such. I'm merely saying, that not everything about communism is bad. Just like not everything about capitalism is good. For now, we're going to leave the above subject, on the merits and shortcomings of different methods of government operation, because I want to take the Linux communism idea in a different direction.
Communist governments tend to be very oppressive to the people.
The government controls the press, and most aspects of daily life. Meaning that the people of a communist country, typically only know what the government allows them to see. I see this principle being used in the Linux community, but by the users I described above. In their blind devotion to the Linux cause, these people do not want to allow people to voice an opinion on Linux, unless that opinion is one of pure praise. Now, I'd like to see Linux succeed as much as the next person, but I also quickly tire of non-stop cheer leading.