I read a post that FOSS wasn't dead, it had never been alive. All it was was privileged white men who wanted to tinker with computers, and now it is just free labour for big business.
It didn't have a political philosophy, so it just got co-opted.
Yes but... What if everyone had free time and the opportunity and encouragement to work on things they liked? I'm pretty sure a lot of people would want tinker with computers. There would be a lot more and lot better free software floating around.
FOSS is still an example of the human need to be socially useful independent of capitalist remuneration, even if the people in FOSS are often deeply flawed and misguided.
FOSS can still be an inspiration even if capitalism fucked it up. Capitalism fucks everything up, but underneath the layer of shit there are also good human impulses.
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