Essentially honest FOSS will be available when we evolve to "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs"[1] type of society.
Human race is clearly on asymptotical track to that. But not yet.
[1] (C) 1875, Karl Marx.
“No plan of operations extends with certainty beyond the first encounter with the enemy’s main strength.”
http://connect2amc.com/118-strategic-planning-moltke-the-eld...
If you want more relevant citation then this: "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step" (C) Lao Tzu
For that matter I would say that first major step to real FOSS was made in 1917. But it was too early and shouldn't that brutally enforced. Evolution is the only reasonable way to get anywhere in such complex systems.
Relevant fact: all hardware and software in USSR was Open Source. Any non-trivial product must be and was accompanied by full schematics. Software sources must be printed out, etc. By law.
The point was, that marxism as a theory is only a plan - and that plan did not really worked out in reality so far.
And if you want to paint the USSR in a golden FOSS picture, well I would suggest talking with people who actually lived there and were not in a privileged party position. And it would be news to me, that the USSR published their tank, aircraft or rockets schematics.
I do not have such intention. I just wanted to point out particular fact.
> I would suggest talking with people who actually lived there
I do that every day. With myself.
> privileged party position
That's definitely not about myself.
> the USSR published their tank, aircraft or rockets schematics.
I had a rank of Lieutenant (Reserve) of Strategic Forces of USSR and specialty "Control Systems of Ballistic Missiles".
Trust me, end users of these devices had full schematics :)
It's not a plan. Marx specifically avoided any such planning and explained why. Marxism is a theory about capitalism. It's not a plan at all.
Where did he say so?
Because marxism as I know it, surely is and has a plan. A plan to completely reshape society and economy. Dictatorship of the proletariat ... until the state of real communism is achieved.
Can it be, you only heard of the capital, but not the communist Manifest?
He did the exact opposite, he explained why he thought such a plan should not be published.
> Can it be, you only heard of the capital, but not the communist Manifest?
The Communist Manifesto -- which is a statement of the Communist Party rather than Marx, though he wrote it -- includes a political platform, but read the platform and you see, it is mostly just social democratic reforms. At most, it approaches "revolutionary reform" (i.e., reforms meant to make revolution possible). It certainly isn't a description of the "dictatorship of the proletariat." You won't ever find that and cite it.