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wrong culture maybe, but their have definitely been successful communal societies. And there have definitely been successful free software projects.

• Barrin92 6y ago
  I spent a year in a kibbutz, I am definitely aware that there's success on the margins. But it very much has to exist in the crevasses of the system. The 'free software' movement is explicitly ethical for that reason, it is hard to justify it on economic grounds, and free software is undersupplied for that reason.
  • tehjoker 6y ago
    Feudalism seemed like an immovable foundation of the world until it wasn't. The problem with free software is the need for private competition to restrict people to make money. In a cooperative vs a competitive economy, this idea would come to the forefront. For more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalist_Realism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalist_Realism
    • jcranmer 6y ago
      > Feudalism seemed like an immovable foundation of the world until it wasn't. When I see a statement like this, I must immediately ask: what do you consider to be feudalism, and when do you think it existed?
      • tehjoker 6y ago
        Feudalism was a system of land ownership and military service for nobles and peasants more-or-less tied to the land working for the nobles. Urbanization and capitalism eventually overturned this system with most of the vestiges wiped out after WW1 when many monarchies became republics. It existed mostly in the middle ages up to the 1700s/1800s and was eroded unevenly around the world (notably the USSR confronted the system directly in 1917).