The composting moment, the thinking behind #FOSS has stagnated. The same “freedom” that opened the door to collective innovation also let capital appropriate the commons. Corporations learned to exploit open code while ignoring its intent, twisting licenses, and capturing communities. This is the #GeekProblem: confusing technical brilliance with moral neutrality, mistaking openness of code for openness of culture.
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The solution is not to abandon #FOSS, but to rebalance it. We need to compost the sterile individualism that crept in, nourish the soil with social values - trust, care, shared governance, and humility. The #OMN and #OGB projects try to do this by adding a democratic layer of governance to our infrastructure, bringing social accountability to technical openness.
If we keep it #KISS - simple, human, transparent - we can rebuild code as commons again. Not as ideology solidified into control, but as cooperation solidified into action.
Because yes, software is ideology made machine, but that means it can be reprogrammed.
@hamishcampbell I tend to think of law as human code and lawyers as hackers: licensure becomes a tug-of-war between those who find a way to bypass intent and closing those loopholes. So, stagnant but not … sorry, stupid UI won’t let me scroll back to see your first reply’s term. Not dead. (Edit: ah, you said stagnated. Yeah. Efforts to close loopholes just need to increase)
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