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I think all of these discussions revolve around singe point: people want all of the benefits of working on FOSS - working on what you love passionately, working

I think all of these discussions revolve around singe point: people want all of the benefits of working on FOSS - working on what you love passionately, working at your own pace, whenever, wherever, not being responsible to anyone but yourself and also have access to large audience of developers that will use your software, but they also want all the benefits and incentives that corporate/company structure offers. I don't think these can reconciled.

ahelwer 5y ago
In my view it's about the interface. Any utopian community must interface with the rest of the currently-not-utopian world. I suspect the utopian aspect can only be maintained if that interface is very small and restricted. Otherwise the property-based wider society will grow to dominate and maximally exploit the utopia, as is its nature. This concept is explored in The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin.