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#FOSS is still one of the best evidence that cooperation beats competition. But if we don’t compost the blindness in the foundations - the idea that “neutral” tech can stay outside politics - we keep rebuilding the same power structures we thought we’d escaped.
The next step is not only defend FOSS from capitalism, but more to finish the argument: code freedom + social responsibility. That’s what projects like #OMN and #OGB are for.
#FOSS is still one of the best evidence that cooperation beats competition. But if we don’t compost the blindness in the foundations - the idea that “neutral” tech can stay outside politics - we keep rebuilding the same power structures we thought we’d escaped.
The next step is not only defend FOSS from capitalism, but more to finish the argument: code freedom + social responsibility. That’s what projects like #OMN and #OGB are for.
Under the current system, financial incentives enable more under-privileged to contribute and prevents maintainer burnout. FOSS hasn’t succeeded at solving these problems. I also don’t see the ethics in developing software for capitalist use for free. We need a new movement for software freedom that pushes Copyfarleft licenses instead of merely Copyleft licenses.
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