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Reading about FOSS philosophy, degoogling, becoming against corporations, and now a full-blown woke communist (like Linus Torvalds)

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[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Linus Torvalds is a "full-blown woke communist"? Citation needed.

I have been a FOSS enthusiast since my preteen or early teenage years (mid-to-late 2000s), yet I am not in any sense a communist.

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[–] lemba@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] shirro@aussie.zone 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't really see the link to communism though I can see the parallels to social democracy.

Private ownership of computer code should lead us to a hellscape where all code is owned by a handful of huge companies and wealthy elites. But instead of doing away with private ownership and making all code public domain we added regulation in the form of free and open source licensing that democratized private ownership and made it serve our community. Perhaps that is the real lesson, not communism.

[–] kariboka@bolha.forum 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You don't know what communism is.

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[–] anarchotaoist@links.hackliberty.org 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Interesting because libertarians are for FOSS as they are against IP. (It is not real property). Libertarians also like to degoogle as they like privacy. Libertarians are against corporations as they are not a free market creation.

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[–] Mago@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

Changing your entire personality and opinions like that is a giant red flag.

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