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[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 2 points 9 months ago

And open source software is explicitly anti-capitalist.

[-] bigMouthCommie@kolektiva.social -3 points 9 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@lemmy.zip 1 points 9 months ago

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

[-] bigMouthCommie@kolektiva.social 0 points 9 months ago

but open source isn't anticapitalist

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 1 points 9 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.

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