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I think you are attracting downvotes because you completely mistook my point. I support Free software - financially, by evangelising it, by writing it, and by

I think you are attracting downvotes because you completely mistook my point. I support Free software - financially, by evangelising it, by writing it, and by using it. My point was that I think some large companies are getting a lot more value from their use of it than the authors and maintainers get from working on it. (Edited to add: I agree wholeheartedly about downvoting vs. replying. I wish more people would reply instead of, or perhaps as well as, downvoting).

Kednicma 6y ago
You are almost to one of the big tenets of Marxism: Employers have it out for employees; managers do not respect laborers. I think that what's missing from your insight is that every corporation, simply by dint of its legal structure and societal appearance, has an unfair modicum of power which it lords over the folks that actually do the work.
- duncan_bayne 6y ago
  ... which is why it's entirely reasonable for labour to unionise, to increase their bargaining power with employers. One of the fundamentals of Marxism with which I disagree, though - at such a fundamental level that it drives an emotional response to the license we're discussing - is that paid labour is necessarily exploitation. That is, I consider the labour theory of value to be incorrect. I'm reminded of the famous Reagan quote: > How do you tell a Communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin."