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Socialist Literature on Software (lemmygrad.ml)
submitted 2 months ago by BassedWarrior@lemmygrad.ml to c/programming@lemmygrad.ml
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I have found it not so simple to be able to find socialist literature regarding software and software development, and I was wondering if you had any recommendations for myself, and anyone who may find this post in the future. (And if there's an already existing post which details various sources on the matter, that would also be appreciated).

But I mostly wanted to know if there's any literature or any analysis on FOSS, and if that's the best alternative we have currently under capitalism. Because I see a lot of socialist software is usually developed utilizing strong copyleft licenses such as GPL 3.0 (or later) or AGPL 3.0 (or later) (Lemmy, for example).

And I already made another post regarding the ProleWiki page on FOSS, where I asked about the possibility of including further information in order to make it easier for fellow comrades to learn more about the topic, from a socialist perspective, and not just cling to FOSS for freedom's sake.

And maybe the possibilty of including some information regarding the views on self-hosting as a way of providing better information security for comrades, as well as include links to resources such as Codeberg for code-hosting, over GitHub, which is owned by Microsoft.

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[โ€“] FuckBigTech347@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Proprietary Software would eventually cease to exist under a Socialist state, because Proprietary Software is inherently Capitalist.
The only reason to keep Source Code behind lock and key is because the Owner(s) want to use it as a means to make profit.
Proprietary Software is just another attempt at commodifying knowledge.

[โ€“] BassedWarrior@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 months ago

I would assume that it could be useful in a transition state? Idk what China is doing, for example, with their source code to guard it from the west.