buckykat@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoFree and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•Following this road is overwhelming
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11 months agoThere is no ethical way to monetize software because the unethical thing is capitalism itself.
There is no ethical way to monetize software because the unethical thing is capitalism itself.
No, that’s free software, small f. Free Software, capital F, is software which respects your four fundamental software freedoms: to run, study, redistribute, and modify the software.
Open Source is a capitalist trick to make the source code available without necessarily preserving those freedoms.
Open Source is a capitalist plot
Yes, hence the constant efforts to create and enforce artificial scarcity, from DRM to NFTs.
And it’s not just software. The same ideology leads to locked dumpsters full of food behind grocery stores and shoes and coats cut open before they’re thrown away at the end of the season.