Average “software freedom” evangelist
The white supremacy isn’t a bug in this philosophy, it’s a feature
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This is why it is imperative to have a humanities education to complement a STEM education, and why we all need to be reading theoryRE: https://mastodon.social/@amszmidt/116047351699695083
This is why it is imperative to have a humanities education to complement a STEM education, and why we all need to be reading theory
To set the Exchange-Value of our owns works to Zero so that the Use-Value is maximally exploitable by corporations is not something I believe we should aspire to
Nothing about the current status quo was "fought" for - corporations simply realized that this software licensing model represented another socialized model of production which could be privately appropriated
To either not be able to see, or worse, willfully ignore, how corporations have spent more money than all of us collectively will ever see in our lifetimes to engineer this specific outcome is not something to take pride in
I am not interested in and I make no concessions to the half-baked "software freedom" pseudo-philosophy of an unapologetic genocide denier and his unquestioning acolytes
They are happy to turn a blind eye to:
* Megacorps propagandizing to ensure the status quo of each new generation of developers setting the Exchange-Value of their works to Zero by default
* Megacorps exploiting the Use-Value of those works to build structures which allow them to monopolize internet infrastructure on a global level
* Megacorps collaborating with state actors to employ those same structures to enable genocide, bolster fascism, erode privacy and equip openly racist paramilitary forces with the tools to predictively target the people of the global majority
The list goes on...
"software freedom" evangelists would happily see the entire world razed to the ground just so they could stand on the ashes and proclaim "software freedom has won!"
Every day I grow more and more convinced that open source is a dead-end, and I know these evangelists are starting to sense it too, which is why they grow louder, more brazen, more reactive, and more sloppy
The post-open source space is very exciting right now, and it's full of people who understand one fundamental truth:
Nothing will change if we keep blindly adhering to the same false dogma