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Why isn't piracy used more often as a springboard to communism? (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'd make a related point about open source development. Many large scale projects are developed as open source without any financial incentive. These projects are just as complex as anything commercial companies can produce.

Open source development completely dismantles arguments that people won't work without a profit motive, that you need capitalism for innovation, or that you can't organize labour without a traditional company structure.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It seems "free software" would be more suited to the point you're making than "open source". But I agree with you https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.en.html

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Sure, GNU is the best example of this. I do think this applies to any projects people develop because they're interested in building something they want to share, even if they don't use a decent copyleft license.