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@rl_dane @cmccullough my solution, as a humanities major, is more humanities 😅 I don’t think it’s a perfect paradigm, but I think it is helpful in these cases to think of software as a tool driven by the mind of the human who designed it and the human who uses it. The major contributions of the Foss community were philosophical and, well, the expansion of the possibility space to prove it (software development) can be done a different way. You’ve got Steve Ballmer on one side who thinks you can’t do security, can’t do features, can’t do user friendliness without proprietary development and you have…… a bunch of hobbyists proving him wrong? What drove them to try? It was their philosophy. I think if you want a better world, you’re going to have to distill what about the philosophy of the Foss community you think has broader applications, and where the Foss community has weaknesses in its philosophy that leave it vulnerable.