[Solar-general] Reclaiming the Computing Commons

Dom Feb 7 15:27:47 CET 2016

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/02/free-software-movement-richard-stallman-linux-open-source-enclosure/

[...] the social conditions under which free software is developed are 
marked by a contradiction between hackers’ commitments to the promotion 
of software freedom and their dependence on the market to reproduce 
themselves, socially and professionally. Free software depends socially, 
if not always computationally, on proprietary software development.

[...] Free software is not an emancipatory politics, using free software 
is not a form of political participation, and opting out of the closed 
software paradigm does not challenge capital’s hegemony over computing.

The struggle against the commodification of the information commons is a 
political, not technical one.