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GNU Linux does dominate the computing world: servers, phones, and IoT, by far the majority of all hardware runs it. To your second point, I'm just describing a
by ewzimm 10y ago
GNU Linux does dominate the computing world: servers, phones, and IoT, by far the majority of all hardware runs it.
To your second point, I'm just describing a future in which almost all work is done by machines and humanity owns them collectively but not evenly. I mean collectively in the sense of all of humanity being pushed into the owner class and out of the working class, but power differences will persist.
How those power differences play out is not determined. It could move either toward increasing centralization of power or increasing decentralization. That will be determined by the choices we are making now, which is why a lot of people want to consider the effects of current laws and politics on a theoretical postcapitalist world.
- Ace17 10y ago> GNU Linux does dominate the computing world: servers, phones, and IoT, by far the majority of all hardware runs it. Android contains Linux, but not GNU; thus, Android and GNU/Linux are mostly different, because all they have in common is Linux (Richard Stallman).
- ewzimm 10y agoI thought someone might say that and considered explaining further, but didn't want to get too bogged down in details to distract from the point. I don't completely agree with the distinction, even though Stallman is the authority. There's still a lot of GNU code used in most Android installations, and a full Debian install only requires installing and running an app. Maybe GNU-available/Linux would be a better name. Although the default is minimal free software, it's easy to add F-droid and anything else you want, because Linux is still GNU GPL-licensed and and still has the freedoms associated with it (despite restrictive baseband and other software.) So in the context of free software dominating hardware, it's still a good example.
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