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

  • Many will scream ‘but FLOSS is political’. In fact the opposite is true! FLOSS is a reaction against the political imposition called Intellectual Property. It is ANTI-political!

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      161 year ago

      Actions done in relation to politics are political. That’s how it works. If someone is against the motivation of an economic system or a state, that is politically driven.

      Just as you are against socialism is political, being against proprietary software is as well.

      Reaction to the status quo, both against or for, is inherently political.

      • There are two ways for humans to interact: voluntarily, with consent, permission, through agreement and contract OR through force, coercion, mandation & compulsion.

        Politics employs the later. When the former is violated it can require self-defence. FLOSS is a legal (not political) self-defence.