The “open source is communism” is pushed by big tech companies to get Boomers who still think we live in the cold war to support them. Most communists don’t really care about if something is open source or not. What they care about is if Microsoft and Google are state owned or private companies.
Free software is communism
Dominic Nelson
Christopher Hernandez
Fuck, you are dumb.
Nathan Flores
If something is free, then you are the product.
This is the foundation of """free""" software.
Charles Parker
The vast majority of people who call FLOSS "communism" are not themselves commies. It's almost always boomers and shitlibs who see the anti-capitalist and anti-consumerist optics of FLOSS and immediately assume it to be some sort of communist front.
It can't be denied that FLOSS (and tech in general) seems to attract a lot of either the far-left or the libertarian right. Because the far-left is far more likely than the libertarian right to loudly telegraph and enforce their beliefs, it gives the impression that FLOSS is far more left-leaning than it really is (though I suspect that the average does lean left somewhat).
Christian Johnson
People have the mistaken belief that free software is forbidden/untenable to make a profit. Based on this premise, people create free software because they want to oppose the system of selling proprietary software for a profit. The conclusion is that the ideal of free software is to oppose the profit of proprietary software by making it hard for proprietary software to make a profit when free software is around. People compare this idea to the ideals of communism which exists to oppose the abuses of capitalist power by confiscating the power of the capitalist.
I personally do not think this way. I actually believe that it is possible to make a profit selling free software. I believe that it is not antiethical to strive in making a profit when selling free software.
Grayson Evans
the people modern marxism targets is above middle class self professed intellectuals and trendy faggots that live in feminized environments.
these people enter tech mainly as a power-grab, all they know is how to copy and paste css and jquery snippets.
they're part of the long march through the institutions and depend entirely on men who write free software.
Look into "coding bootcamps", all the instructors fill their twitter with cultural marxist ideals rather than web design / tech commentary.
many of said schools are explicitly for women, lgbtqp2a, POC, BIPOC, run by cunt business women that depend on government funding or other dubious means.
I say writing free software enpowers communists, just as paying taxes enables mass indoctrination / immigration.
Guy's like ESR are thinking too much about how the USSR operated, being openly violent / coercive and targetting the working class.
The future of communism depends entirely on wealthy business woman getting rid of all low income jobs forcing people into debt to get "trained" to do clerical / managerial work for "living" wages while paying room and board to a communal facilty in the city where you need to maintain a social credit score by tolerating your room mate shooting up meth and getting anal fisted.
all labour will be done by mixed race illegals that are property of coorporations.
all the coersion will be covert and everyone will still praise democracy, diversity, and human rights because they'll still be allowed to watch netflix (in fact it will be mandatory to maintain a social credit score).
Brandon Campbell
GNU is communism
Something like Unlicense is free software.
Free does not mean freedom. Free means the software is libre.
From the definition of libre (Wikipedia):
GNU has heavy limitations on distribution of open source software. BSD 3-clause and MIT are both far superior licensing methods. Real engineers will just screw software licensing and go with something like unlicense. Make your software truly libre.
Jackson Brooks
Wikipedia has a good diagram of what I am talking aout. Any Copyleft or non-Permissive software license is basically just communism. Of course the GNU-loving Stallman worshiping pajeets of Zig Forums would appreciate a nice protective license to say fuck you to anyone who wants to re-license their work.
Hunter Sullivan
BSD cucks, enjoy your software patents and corporations stealing your code.
Blake Garcia
Good. That is the intention. Maybe one day we can come to a general consensus to not release closed-source software. I for one, would push for my company to release some of our older software as open source because it would allow for people in the open source community to use it to create better products for the community and to fix bugs that we do not have the ability to fix.