Speaking of Communists …

Bill Gates recently compared open-source advocates to communists:

No, I'd say that of the world's economies, there's more that believe in intellectual property today than ever. There are fewer communists in the world today than there were. There are some new modern-day sort of communists who want to get rid of the incentive for musicians and moviemakers and software makers under various guises. They don't think that those incentives should exist.

The reaction at Boing Boing, instead of pointing out that Microsoft software is centrally planned, was to come up with a red copyleft flag in imitation of the hammer and sickle as though being compared to communists were a point of pride.

Are they trying to discredit themselves?