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  • Cethin
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    25 months ago

    And open source software is explicitly anti-capitalist.

    • HACKthePRISONS
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      -35 months ago

      free software is. open source is an attempt to sell free software out to capitalist interest.

      eric raymond and the OSI are not good.

      • Cethin
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        15 months ago

        There are many forms of free and/or open source software.

          • Cethin
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            15 months ago

            Yeah, I guess the original statement was too broad, but any FOSS using a GPL license effectively is. I guess not anti-capitalist though, but un-capitalist. It doesn’t try to remove capitalism, it tries to be seperate from it.