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There is still open source software, and it is still as free as ever.

• pjmlp 1y ago
  And routinely gets license changed as the authors discover they actually need to make money in a capitalist world.
  • deadbabe 1y ago
    FOSS is a bad way to make money, but it is a great way for independently wealthy developers to get clout.
  • timka 1y ago
    It's the Westphalian system which includes not only (protestant) capitalism, but also scientific positivism, liberal humanism and everything else. Which we now call (post-/meta-)modern. There's nothing we can do about all that and for practical reasons we just accept the world as is and tend to forget/ignore the reasons it is so. But for retaining cognitive sovereignty if think it's good to remember that.