Is the Free Software Movement communist?

Is the Free Software Movement communist?

Free software yes, but most open-source projects are pure liberal ideology

Yup. More communist than statist socialism

idk but I support it regardless

yes it is… is that an issue?

and you didnt really specify, Communism isnt one particular political Philosophy

No, but it doesn't matter too much if it is. It would be a good thing in any kind of society. It would, however, thrive more under communism.

I love free software, but it is not communism. Part of the movement certainly has an anti-property tendency (at least for software), but much of it is very cozy with corporations and relies on their money for development. In the revolution, all major software will be expropriated and made free.

Nice play on the GNU copypasta though.

you can not have capitalism anymore without muh """intelectual property""". Free software is mostly very ineffective because investors need ROI

free software is autism plain and simple

programmers are not like normal people and always insit in the most enti empirical ideas possible

Just because skilled programmers are exploited af. Free software is develped mostly by autists with no concept of "life".

do you know what free software is? Do you actually prefer software to be proprietary?

For me it makes no difference since I'm not a programmer I don't have the freedom of changing the code to me needs.

It actually does affect you because with proprietary code is very easy to sneak things into because it can't be properly audited by anybody except the company that owns it.

Chromium, the libre fork of Chrome had a backdoor that let google spy on you so not even libre software is free

I know propietarian software can spy on me and I do my par to protect my privacy but if the propietarian program does it better than the free alternative I will obviously use the propietarian program.

Firefox is libre and doesn't have the spy shit in it, so….?

I'm using FF as of now.
FF is nice but it eats up ram, the developers failed to move to webextensions
FF is good I'm not arguing against it but still other stuff is different.

Yeah but you know about that because by virtue of being free software, its contents are public record. You can just use a fork that doesn't contain the spyware.

Yes.
Still there is libre software that is not better than the propietarian alternative

There is some proprietary software that's better than some free software. There are some capitalist companies that are better than some socialist cooperatives.

yes and?

Bahahaha.
You must be a special kind of stupid to not understand the motive behind free software.

1. Chromium is not free software. It is just a mostly audited fork of Chrome. There were proprietary parts and there were "audited" parts. I say audited because none of Chromium or Chrome have been released under the GNU GPL License, primarily because none of it is eligible.
2. On the basis of it not free software, you basically just made a point making yourself more of an idiot.

Why again does that matter?

FF is going to have a lot of good stuff coming soon. Servo, e10s, experimental UI stuff.

Autist got angry he was called autist

That's not actually true. Look at redhat, sun microsystems, and all other big companies that contribute to free software just because it's the rational thing to do.

The free software movement misses too much of the broader social content of property. They focus narrowly on the question of intellectual property in software. Intellectual property, like all other property, is the product of labor. Under capitalism, labor becomes the property of the purchaser of labor power–the capitalist.

Intellectual property is peculiar because a whole lot of labor goes into creating it once, then it is copied en mass for much cheaper and distributed. Intellectual property laws exist to prevent someone else from copying the work and distributing it underneath the owner. It is property that can be stolen without taking anything, the most abstract property. Digital media makes the act of stealing intellectual property much easier.

A software developer produces a type of intellectual property called source code. This is the expression of a mechanically executable solution to a well defined problem, i.e. a program. The source code is interpreted by another program, which either runs it itself or compiles it to a a form that can run on directly on the computer hardware. Compiled code is far more difficult to understand and modify than source code. For exactly this reason, most companies distribute only compiled code or otherwise obfuscate the program.

Most software developers are not freelancers; they work for a software company to whom they sell their labor power. The developer has no personal say in what software gets made or how it is licensed for distribution. When they excercise their labor under contract, that labor is the property of the company which buys their labor power. It is in the interests of the company that made such a large outlay on labor to recoup their costs an make a profit. Software companies license software to users for a fee. To make sure everyone pays the fee instead of copying it from their friends, the companies rely on the enforcement of intellectual property laws.

They can only profit from free software because most of their customers are companies that need professional consultation and support. Read Hat's biggest customer is the Department of Defense

Nice image op

No. It is not fully Communist, only partially.

It does not advocate collectivization of all the MoP - abolition of private property in general. Only of private property on information - and not even all of the information.

Yes, you can. Intellectual property is not even fully Capitalist. It mostly hinges on artificial restrictions, rather than natural consequences of economy - the very basis of Capitalism: however much you want, you can't just copy factories ad infinitum (unlike information).