> capitalism that enabled Free Software to exist in the first place. No, it did not. If you knew the history of FOSS, then you would know that for several deca

> capitalism that enabled Free Software to exist in the first place. No, it did not. If you knew the history of FOSS, then you would know that for several decades, every major tech company strongly opposed it and was terrified of it. GNU and Linux were started by programmers and academics who wanted to work on software with other people and share the benefits in the open. They were not started by individuals interested in making a profit or getting an IPO. FOSS was not started by entrepreneurs or any company; it was a cooperative, not a competitive, effort by people who wanted something better and who realized that cooperation/sharing work would be helpful in that goal. You could say their goal was to communally create software ;) > Copyleft wouldn't be possible without the existing copyright law. True, but you are not digging into the core issue here. If there was no capitalism (i.e. no companies seeking to maximize profits/valuation), why would there need to be copyright law in its present form? Copyright law exists because companies want to minimize costs, thus leading to incentives to steal other people’s IP for their own ends. Copyleft is a solution within this system; if no profit motive existed, then there would be no need for all of this defensive licensing. > Also the biggest contributors to FOSS projects have been companies As stated before, not for the first couple decades of FOSS. Do you know anything about Microsoft’s historical relationship/commentary about Linux? In the immediate present, your statement is true. That’s why it is described in the article. This is the problem. Corporations have co-opted the FOSS movement and used it to build closed source projects/SaaS products that they alone control and benefit from. The goal of free software was co-opted into free software on unfree platforms (e.g. AWS). > But I was born in communism, I know how not living in capitalism is actually like This is a classic false dichotomy. There are more options than simply capitalism and the 20th century implementations of communism. Even if you reject all forms of communism, communism != !capitalism. That is why ‘anti-capitalism’ is a separate word. Capitalism can be critiqued or replaced; it is not inevitable or unchangeable.