OK, so the FOSS community consists primarily of people in already privileged groups (white English speaking men), and they are best suited to be able to take ad

OK, so the FOSS community consists primarily of people in already privileged groups (white English speaking men), and they are best suited to be able to take advantage of it. So, what's to be done? Is the solution to give up on FOSS? That's what this article seems to be arguing: "All it has done is shift the details and, indeed, done a much better job of disguising its exploitation of people. All while presenting itself as a ‘solution’." The article seems to argue that FOSS actually causes more oppression than it solves, and I have a hard time buying that. One thing that it completely ignores is class distinctions. One of the things that FOSS allows is for anyone to produce a product without substantial investment of capital. Proprietary software is an owner's dream; invest a small amount upfront in developer's salary, and be able to reap unbounded rewards, as there is no unit cost for sales. FOSS allows anyone, without capital upfront, to create a competitive business, opening up opportunities that wouldn't otherwise exist for people who are middle and lower class. Now, those benefits can be most easily reaped by people who have social capital in the community. But it seems that rather than throwing the baby out with the bathwater, it would be better to figure out why there are such barriers to entry to people who are underrepresented in the community. While there are some cases where there are clearly people pushing others away, I feel like there's a lot more of simply a lack of awareness of what it is that is keeping people from joining and contributing to the community, and being able to build up social capital that way.