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I wonder if this (baffling) line of reasoning will become the new "Open Source/FOSS is Communism" of the late '90s early '00s...
by scrps 6y ago
I wonder if this (baffling) line of reasoning will become the new "Open Source/FOSS is Communism" of the late '90s early '00s...
- jkepler 6y agoBut bitcoin is open source (logiciel libre), and its pretty capitalist: look at how it enables people to put market value on really-hard-to-find prime numbers. What's needed to counter any 'open source is communist' rhetoric seems to be an awareness of how much private enterprise and entrepreneurial activity depends on open source.