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> Open Source has shown that individuals will work on solutions Sure, but that's nothing special about open source. Individuals have worked on solutions for a

> Open Source has shown that individuals will work on solutions Sure, but that's nothing special about open source. Individuals have worked on solutions for a very long time. "The Negro Motorist Green Book" would not have worked without the contribution of many individuals to the solution. > Of course, doing this day in and day out could lead to burnout As Open Source demonstrated earlier this year in the xz utilities backdoor. > a form of collaborative socialism can work I think it's important to be cautious about what "socialism" means. Is a barn raising "socialism"? Is a trade group socialism? Is the Chromium project a form of socialism? > The notion that people only contribute to projects for monetary gain or self-interest is simply not true. But surely that's true of most jobs. Like, people become teachers not just for the money, but also because they like to help kids learn. I'll bet you that most of the people with a full-time job working on Chromium or Firefox would stop if they weren't being paid for it. > before Git, we had numerous private code repositories You are mistaking a version control system software license with access to the source repository. In the 1990s I used RCS, which was distributed under the GPL. However, the repositories were proprietary, just like how there are a lot of private git repositories now. > what innovations in materials, construction, and design could arise if we treated housing like an open-source project? We already have a lot of "open source" in that space, including Habitat for Humanity. Or for real "socialized housing", do what the socialists do - have the city set up a building company to use taxes to build new housing, with the cities acting as at-cost rather than profit-seeking landlords. Or change the laws to promote nonprofit cooperative building societies. Similarly, if open-source is socialism then open-source transportation is known as (city/county/community/government) mass transit. And open-source farming would be something like Ocean Spray Cranberries, the co-op which produces 70% of North American cranberry production, yes?

tocs3 2y ago
"I'll bet you that most of the people with a full-time job working on Chromium or Firefox would stop if they weren't being paid for it." I bet you are right but also think that if we did not have to pay for just about everything in life (food, housing, healthcare, etc.) there would be others to step into the gap. They might also be better at it. "And open-source farming would be something like Ocean Spray Cranberries, the co-op which produces 70% of North American cranberry production, yes?" Farming (and other) co-ops have a long history in in my, admittedly limited experience, have been good for the ag. communities they are in.

tocs3 2y ago

"I'll bet you that most of the people with a full-time job working on Chromium or Firefox would stop if they weren't being paid for it." I bet you are right but also think that if we did not have to pay for just about everything in life (food, housing, healthcare, etc.) there would be others to step into the gap. They might also be better at it. "And open-source farming would be something like Ocean Spray Cranberries, the co-op which produces 70% of North American cranberry production, yes?" Farming (and other) co-ops have a long history in in my, admittedly limited experience, have been good for the ag. communities they are in.