Syndicalist types who are serious about implementing workplace democracy need to get over their aversion to finance and engage seriously with it as a practical discipline, not just as a rhetorical tackling dummy. Capital appropriates the whole product legally because it assumes the liabilities of production, and if workers want to appropriate the whole product we have to know how to assume those liabilities intelligently and have some notion of how to bend finance to a moral end.
@dankwraith In addition, Free Software is (and always will be) a necessary requirement for a Free digitally connected society. It's not the only requirement, but its a fundamental requirement.
@dankwraith The Open Source movement's goal was to make "Free Software", with a specific political goal, palatable for business. In doing so they sold the idea that people would spend their free time developing other people's commercial products.
Free Software has never claimed this. We fight for Freedom on the grounds of freedom.
tactics must shift with the times. "free software" was a valuable resistance against the commercialization of software as it existed at the time and produced many useful and valuable projects, but now it is simply used as a method of wage evasion for some of the most profitable entities that have ever existed in human history
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transphobes/aphobes/biphobes/panphobes and pedos please kindly fuck off