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A comm dedicated to the fight for free software with an anti-capitalist perspective.
The struggle for libre computing cannot be disentangled from other forms of socialist reform. One must be willing to reject proprietary software as fiercely as they would reject capitalism. Luckily, we are not alone.
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Capitalism fucks over art and artists always.
One of my professors recently asked me why I support "piracy" (I uploaded the class's textbook to Libgen I'm so fucking cool) and it's that I neither support plagarism nor breaking copyright law (licensing work incorrectly and sharing it incorrectly), but I do support artists getting a livable wage and not having to worry about anything else but their art.
It seems that when I "pirate" the artists are left starving and when I "purchase" the artists are still left starving, so tell me? What's not changing?
Also lmao this professor was cool with me uploading his textbook because it was a live service E-book that I had to painstakingly screenshot each page and put them in a PDF in Libreoffice Draw. He also thinks live service E-books are bullshit but doesn't have the Marxism to explain why.
Based. You rule. Love to see it. Knowledge is meant to be shared.
E-books are bullshit, but also my University lets us access them for free during our degree, so at least poor people can read them instead of shelling out $200 for Campbell's Biology.
My problem is that these are temporary access. You can't read them once you graduate which is bullshit.
Physical copies of these books should be given to students for free and subsidised by the government. But noooo we need to give money to Elon for his piss shuttles and to Israel to bomb babies.