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[-] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

Open source software solves that kind of hidden bullshit.

[-] muix@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 year ago

Exactly why I left that company.

Specifically free (libre) licences, as permissive licences allow corporations to improve/adapt the software without contributing back to the community.

I only work on software with GPL compatible licences now.

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago

And open source software is explicitly anti-capitalist.

[-] bigMouthCommie@kolektiva.social -3 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

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

[-] bigMouthCommie@kolektiva.social 0 points 1 year ago

but open source isn't anticapitalist

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