Reading about FOSS philosophy, degoogling, becoming against corporations, and now a full-blown woke communist (like Linus Torvalds)

  • erwan@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    I agree, FOSS not only appeals to communists but also to the most extreme libertarians.

    Everyone acting in their own selfish interests, using the code they need and writing code to scratch their itch. Forking when they want.

    The idea of a fork (I'm not happy, I'm going to do my own thing) is absolutely not a communist concept. Communism is usually centralized planification.

    • CarbonScored [any]
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      9 months ago

      Is the core tenet of FOSS not about depriving any entity monopoly over the means of software production? That's basically the definition of socialism, as opposed to a fundamental of libertarianism - the incontrovertible holiness of private property.