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Kaboom@reddthat.com 1 day agoCommunism in practice. Communism the theory is impossible. There’s conflicts in society, what happens if a worker doesn’t want to work in communism?
IBM was doing open source in 1952, 23 years before Microsoft was founded. You should really do some background research. To get you started, …wikipedia.org/…/History_of_free_and_open-source_…
cabb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Since you didn’t disagree, it sounds like we both agree that the FOSS movement is compatible with communist ideals.
Only the theory impacts the founding of the FOSS movement so communism in practice is irrelevant.
I’ve been talking about the FOSS movement this entire time, which dates to 1983. IBM only started interacting with the modern FOSS movement in a significant way in the 90s per www.ibm.com/opensource/story/
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 23 hours ago
Foss is neither communist nor capitalist. It’s just a way to distribute software. If anything it’s capitalist since to survive they sell support and other things. It’s just one model of many. If you look it’s mainly for profit companies investing in it. Look at the top contributors for many projects and they are for profit companies donating to the project.
cabb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 hours ago
Why are the donors relevant? This is like arguing that Yugoslavia wasn’t communist because they received foreign aid from the US.
“They sell support and other things” Most (all?) theories of communism don’t have currency when they reach the communist stage but if you’re trying to make a socialist structure work in capitalism it would look like free open source projects.
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 20 hours ago
There is nothing socialist about foss. I have worked on foss projects for twenty years. I get paid. We charge for our product. What is socialist about that?
The workers don’t control anything. The large companies contributing are in control.