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Good for you. The welfare queen megacorps have been too comfortable expecting handouts like open source charity work and public bailouts. Open source software h
by nopenopenopeno 5y ago
Good for you. The welfare queen megacorps have been too comfortable expecting handouts like open source charity work and public bailouts. Open source software has served the elite executive class while leaving working people to depend on anti-freedom proprietary offerings. I am sick of watching it go down like that. The never-ending data leaks, dark patterns, lock-in strategies, and attacks on encryption and freedom of speech, are all exacerbated by this tendency to yield the commons to the ruling class. If open source doesn’t serve working people, I don’t care a lick for it anymore. Cheers to Stallman and all, but this is where his proposals fell short.
- eyelidlessness 5y agoI don’t share this commenter’s particular perspective but I felt it was valuable enough to the conversion to vouch for it.
- pas 5y agoit serves everyone. it's technology. free intellectual "property". free and open innovations. obviously these tools amplify their user's productivity. corps are organized to be economically productive, hence they benefit enormously from free power tools. hobbists benefit too, but since their productivity is low they benefit relatively little in terms of economic surplus. (sure, I might do my taxes using free software, but my taxes are also trivial, two lines and that's it. sure, I might whip up a blog/website using free software to share stuff with people, but again it's economic productivity is already zero, it doesn't matter if now it's a technologically amazing site. and sure, I work as a freelancer using these free tools, but again my productivity is very limited compared to, relative to the systems I work on for corps.) the solution is probably a mix of a bit of wealth tax and consumption taxes.