@ramin_hal9001@fe.disroot.org
I think #RMS was (is?) unable to really abstract away from his roots as an American grow up during #ColdWar.
If he was, he would have been more explicit in looking for a syntesis between #freedom and #communion as foundational model for #FreeSoftware.
I think I got a better ethical model with the #HackingLicense: https://encrypted.tesio.it/documents/HACK.txt
There the two values that dominated 20th century history (and rhetorics) are pillars built on top of a third one, #hacker's #curiosity that provides a dynamic balance among the two (and a third one, candor, intended as intellectual honesty, that is honestly sharing your perspective and knowledge).
So while a think that a second fork from free software is actually needed (the first being #opensource, that as #OSAID made cristal clear, was solely a corporate tactic to exploit #hackers' labour while marginalizing them), I don't think it can be solely based on either freedom (like liberalism) or communion (like communism and socialism) but it need a new set of values to build upon.
Unfortunately, largely due to influence of the US rhetorics since the Marshal Plan, most hackers lack political awareness.
Which is a common issue among most oppressed people these days, but it's something even more dangerous when their skills are used to build weapons (including surveillance and manipulation tools) that furter help oppressors to oppress them and everybody else.
Yet I'm afraid the international socialist movement is completely missing all of these cultural, political and cybernetic dynamics and it's unlikely to evolve beyond 1900, neither in culture nor in methods or tech.
In Italy, for example, all largest unions, #CGIL, #CISL and #UIL, are completely under US BigTech surveillance.
@garbados@friend.camp
I think #RMS was (is?) unable to really abstract away from his roots as an American grow up during #ColdWar.
If he was, he would have been more explicit in looking for a syntesis between #freedom and #communion as foundational model for #FreeSoftware.
I think I got a better ethical model with the #HackingLicense: https://encrypted.tesio.it/documents/HACK.txt
There the two values that dominated 20th century history (and rhetorics) are pillars built on top of a third one, #hacker's #curiosity that provides a dynamic balance among the two (and a third one, candor, intended as intellectual honesty, that is honestly sharing your perspective and knowledge).
So while a think that a second fork from free software is actually needed (the first being #opensource, that as #OSAID made cristal clear, was solely a corporate tactic to exploit #hackers' labour while marginalizing them), I don't think it can be solely based on either freedom (like liberalism) or communion (like communism and socialism) but it need a new set of values to build upon.
Unfortunately, largely due to influence of the US rhetorics since the Marshal Plan, most hackers lack political awareness.
Which is a common issue among most oppressed people these days, but it's something even more dangerous when their skills are used to build weapons (including surveillance and manipulation tools) that furter help oppressors to oppress them and everybody else.
Yet I'm afraid the international socialist movement is completely missing all of these cultural, political and cybernetic dynamics and it's unlikely to evolve beyond 1900, neither in culture nor in methods or tech.
In Italy, for example, all largest unions, #CGIL, #CISL and #UIL, are completely under US BigTech surveillance.
@garbados@friend.camp
