• @PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca
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    511 months ago

    Making it FOSS wouldn’t solve the problem, because FOSS tools can still be used by capitalists to displace workers and erode worker bargaining power.

    This is true of pretty much EVERY tool, but never has a tool had the potential to negatively impact so many in such a diversity of roles.

    So again, the problem isn’t closed source, the problem is capitalism. If you fixed the problems of capitalism, then all software tools would naturally be FOSS, but that’s a product of fixing the problems, not the mechanism to fix the problems.

          • akari
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            211 months ago

            whenever someone uses a nebulous they, is worth asking: who is “they”?

            • @Chakravanti@sh.itjust.works
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              111 months ago

              Xucking anyone. Doesn’t really matter. People don’t shut the fuck up about it and I’ve never heard anyone say what I did that math on and observed myself occurring relentlessly. I don’t give a shit about what you think it is and I ain’t here to lecture anyone or argue. It is what it is.

          • @PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca
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            111 months ago

            If you think FOSS can solve capitalism’s issues, you either don’t know what FOSS is or you don’t know what capitalism’s problems are.

            • @Chakravanti@sh.itjust.works
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              011 months ago

              FOSS can certainly be used to create that which can fix capitalist issues. I’m just done talking to you about it. You’re adamant against shit and I’m not interested in a fight.

                  • @PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca
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                    111 months ago

                    Lol does such vacuous psudointelligent talk get you much success in your circles?

                    I am adamant against capitalism, and I’m pro-FOSS. but I’m not delusional about the ability of FOSS to fix capitalist issues, I’m pro-FOSS because it’s a more-ethical way to make software.

                    You read like a teenager who just learned about FOSS and think it’s going to change the world all by itself.