I expect to see more and more written on this topic as we fall deeper into late stage capitalism.
Open source is how software developers are conditioned and socialized into participating in their own exploitation under capitalism.
Open source is how software developers are conditioned and socialized into participating in their own exploitation under capitalism.
You mean Big Tech and startups? Totally liberated. Yeah. So much that now they are developing AI tools to remove developers from the equation using open source software :)
Firefox, Debian, Linux, GNU stack, Python, Django, Nginx ... all are open source (and so are hundreds or thousands of other software parts I use daily).
I, personally, have immensely benefted from open source and free software. So have uncounted millions of other people, including, most likely, you.
Not everyone chooses to be liberated but I do
There are plenty of regular users who use open source software to avoid monopolies and abuse.
Feel free to expand on this, as I don't understand how putting a MIT license on my projects contribute to "my own exploitation under capitalism", and I'd generally call myself an anti-capitalist so I'm missing something here.
The scenario is something like: I wrote a library, put a MIT license on it and made the code public. A corporation found this library, built something with it and earns a billion dollars every month, and somehow this is exploiting me?
I explicitly gave code away, for free, for people to use for whatever they want, so what happens beyond the code I wrote, I couldn't care less about.
To me it sounds like a bunch of people got sour about something they did, but didn't fully understand the scope of. I mean, you gave something away for free without asking for anything back, but then you see companies make money from it so now you want a piece?