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

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (7 children)

What? These things are not related to each other by a good margin. In fact, since the FOSS is completely orderless, it goes against communism; which requires some sort of order just to be able to function. But either way, the parallel is not there or questionable at best, not to mention irrelevant.

Can we NOT drag useless politics into FOSS?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Yeah I play civ 5

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ikr it's really more like anarcho-syndicalism

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Lost of syndicalists see themselves as communists. Including myself. I've been on the board, on the administration team and the negotiatiok team for my syndicalist union. All communism isn't leninism.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

being against big corps is both a grassroots FOSS thing and an anticap thing. Also Socialism (step between capitalism and communism) requires "some sort of order" while communism needs as little or as much as FOSS does

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What do you mean by foss being orderless? Wouldn't this concept be more associated with the development structure of each project?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

It is what Free Market economist Hayek called 'Spontaneous Order'. You can either have free spontaneous order as evidenced in a libre market and voluntary interaction OR controlled chaos as evidenced in governments with their IP, as well as socialist aspiring Communists societies.