Post #2768172
2023-12-12 16:40 UTC
@Mer__edith@mastodon.world @ck@chaos.social @dalias@hachyderm.io @signalapp@mastodon.world The world has paid such a high price for the founding ideology of the FOSS movement's lack of political consciousness around capitalist dynamics. "Markets produce just outcomes / markets naturally punish bad actors / small businesses will save the world" in all its forms (FOSS by no means alone) led directly to today's tech surveillance/policing/military-industrial oligarchies - against which we must build broad, powerful coalitions of ordinary people.
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@jollyrogue@bsd.network 2023-12-12 19:38
@jplebreton@mastodon.social I would argue they were aware of the dynamics and were 100% pro-capitalism. The GPL, in particular, is very much a capitalist tool, and there isn’t much energy around fixing it. Some of the old guard have made it very clear, open source is, and was, capitalist. Especially when the ideas of a communist public license or an anti-capitalist license come up. @Mer__edith@mastodon.world @ck@chaos.social @dalias@hachyderm.io @signalapp@mastodon.world @be@floss.social