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Discuss anarchist praxis and philosophy. Don't take yourselves too seriously.

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[–] winterayars@sh.itjust.works 8 points 8 months ago

The great part about the GNU Public License (and similar) is that they've had a philosophical/ideological bent toward resisting that corruption. You can use the software, but you have to share the code with the people (individuals) who are actually using it. If you change it, those changes have to go to people who are using the changed software. You're not allowed to grab other people's work and proprietary-ize it.

It's not perfect and corporations are constantly looking for new and innovative ways to corrupt it, but it works pretty well tbh. There aren't a lot of things that can stop the relentless crush of capitalism at all, but open source software has been pretty successful in my opinion.