With Open Source/Free Software as well as Creative Commons we have build pipelines to contribute to the commons (great!) but we never thought about how to defend those commons against appropriation.
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I always thought the job of defending and growing the good tech was up to right-minded technologists, each in our way in our place of work. A lot of peers been slacking.
That is why Open Source ends up massively benefitting corporations who don't give much back. That is also why Creative Commons has no interest in building more modular licenses that do for example prohibit training "AI" systems.
It's the market-based, liberal idea that if there's a lot of stuff there someone will make some money, someone will fund a startup and that is what everything is about. We've been had.
Yeah I’ve been a FLOSS evangelist for a decade but not anymore.
FLOSS mostly runs on wishful thinking but if you look at it from any remotely Marxist POV it’s a complete failure: it does nothing for the workers (ie: no pay) and nothing to prevent capitalists from seizing the work for themselves
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https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/copyfarleft-and-copyjustright
FLOSS mostly runs on wishful thinking but if you look at it from any remotely Marxist POV it’s a complete failure: it does nothing for the workers (ie: no pay) and nothing to prevent capitalists from seizing the work for themselves