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wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 1 day agoFoss 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 1 day 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 1 day 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.