BassedWarrior

Okay, so I'm not sure if this is the place to post this, of it should be on Freechat or some other place, but being a gamer who has lately been somewhat conflicted between the need to

But I'd always love to see some sort of marxist analysis of programming, and software, and ofc...videogames! And so this is just an article by Jacobin Magazine, which summarizes the contents of the book

And I thought it would be the perfect thing to share here in Lemmygrad. Hope I'm not mistaken posting this here.

This is a linked reading from the anticapitalist software license website, which I posted before on this same community.

Thought it would be an intresting read to share here as well.

TL;DR: About the failure of the FOSS movement and it getting turned into just OSS.

TL;DR: it's a copyright license that forbids any non-worker-owned company from using it.

 ANTI-CAPITALIST SOFTWARE LICENSE (v 1.4)

Copyright © [year] [copyright holders]

This is anti-capitalist software, released for free use by individuals and organizations that do not operate by capitalist principles.

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person or organization (the "User") obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to use, copy, modify, merge, distribute, and/or sell copies of the Software, subject to the following conditions:

1. The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or modified versions of the Software.

2. The User is one of the following:
a. An individual person, laboring for themselves
b. A non-profit organization
c. An educational institution
d. An organization that seeks shared profit for all of its members, and allows non-members to set the cost of their labor

3. If the User is an organization with owners, then all owners are workers and all workers are owners with equal equity and/or equal vote.

4. If the User is an organization, then the User is not law enforcement or military, or working for or under either.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

So I've made some posts recently asking about the various difrerent licensing and development philosophies we could apply as socialist software developers, and have now found this license.

It is listed on GNU's list of incompatible licenses as a non-free license, since it limits what the software can be used for, and who can use it, which goes against freedom 0.

And I found it intresting enough to share. As

The biggest drawback I can think of when using this license is that it limits the flexibility for comrades who are better suited with a different legal enterprise structure, while still working as a cooperative in practice.

But let me know any thoughts you tay have on this. I just thought it was intresting enough to share and keep the discussion going.

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.

I don't know if there's a post asking about this already, but what happened to the whole Common Software concept?

I found this webpage for the RTC:

https://comrades.sbs/

which I think is what the article on FOSS is referring to.

But I see that the pages for Common Software and Revolutionary Technical Commitee have been deleted.

Does the License still exist? What happened to the RTC? And can I find more information anywhere?

Because now it just feels like a tease, but with no link to learn more. And I've wanted to find a better alternative to FOSS for my software.

Thank you so much for the wiki. I love it and would love to keep reading it.