Free Software is one of the only advanced areas of production not controlled by property ownership, but by free association of individuals.
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People show off iPhones as the success of Capitalism, not realizing it'd be a brick without the internet – which is built off Free Software.
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This free association, which the Capitalists have long called "inefficient", has produced the software that is the backbone of the internet.
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The OS's, server software, databases and tools used to build them. Private property was required for none of it, and only tried to stop it.
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So remember next time some Capitalist brags about their toy: the hard work was done before they got there, through anti-capitialist systems.
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The iOS kernel is also based significantly on weak copyleft free software.
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Yep - plus both wired and WiFi connected internet were developed by govts, not private sector
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Anyone using a smart phone not at their home or coffee shop is not using the internet they are using a 3G or 4G network built by the ph corp
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3G was developed by ITU, a non-private collaborative international organization.
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Well, government subsidies. People had "jobs" which allowed them to write all that code.
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Why "jobs"? Is it only a job, if it makes someone else richer? Science and intellectual expanding are way more worth than yield...
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