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Cake day: December 5th, 2023

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  • The “free” part is clearly not working. Or rather it is working as is now intended: free labour for the private sector to exploit.

    I remember seeing a thread about redis on r/linux where lots and lots of people were basically defending Amazon as if from an anarcho-capitalist position. This confused me as I always saw foss (and foss users) as leaning socialist and anti-corporate.

    I spoke to someone about that and they linked me this article (and the article linked in the first sentence) which really opened my eyes.

    The TL;Dr is basically:

    FOSS is not socialist. The free software movement is right-libertarian / “anarcho”-capitalist, and the open source movement is neoliberal; neither of these is even particularly close to socialism.