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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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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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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Free software has been built within capitalism too. Not in USSR nor in Cuba. And on machines built by private companies.
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I'm just waiting for the right point in this train of thought to jump in with the GNU/Linux rant
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Know a lot of people in open source and they pretty much all say the most sustainable models include funding, which is often corporate
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Just like torrentz. Which should be called anarchism rather than authoritarian communism.
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Sir Open Source world is so big and rich tha Hollywood is making movies with Linux. And NSA have their own linux distro.
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