Even in a socialist society, producing proprietary software would be viewed as harshly as transporting food without inspections, dealing narcotics to kids or witholding life saving medicine until payment.
Open source has made a political movement apolitical and self contained to the worldview of capitalists rather than viewing computing as a societal mechanism of control or liberation. We should reject this term entirely and instead take the opportunity to advocate for socialism and worker control over the means of production.
I don’t have a label other than “not proprietary” I assume that all software and hardware respects the GNU 4 freedoms/rights and that things that don’t need to be qualified as proprietary.
i think open source software and such would be good in a communist society where money is abolished in favor of labor vouchers. seriously!
Even in a socialist society, producing proprietary software would be viewed as harshly as transporting food without inspections, dealing narcotics to kids or witholding life saving medicine until payment.
Open source has made a political movement apolitical and self contained to the worldview of capitalists rather than viewing computing as a societal mechanism of control or liberation. We should reject this term entirely and instead take the opportunity to advocate for socialism and worker control over the means of production.
what about free software?
I don’t have a label other than “not proprietary” I assume that all software and hardware respects the GNU 4 freedoms/rights and that things that don’t need to be qualified as proprietary.