Open Source is a voluntary community. You don't have to contribute if you don't want to; you don't have to use it if you don't want to. But trying to apply it

Open Source is a voluntary community. You don't have to contribute if you don't want to; you don't have to use it if you don't want to. But trying to apply it to all of society would require forcing it on those who are not voluntarily willing to do things that way. That's where the difference comes: Is it voluntary, or not? And that's where the problem comes for socialist societies - there are always lots of people who don't want to live that way, and you have to force them. There seems to be another route to socialism, or at least socialism lite: democratically pass legislation, one piece at a time. That does not have the moral problem of force. But you won't see your vision in your lifetime.