This thought came to me in the shower today. Open source checks most of the boxes. It is a collaborative, worker owned (develloper-owned) project, that tries to flatten hierarchy. Especially if you look at something like Debian ), which really tries to have a bottom-up structure.
Of course, there are exceptions, considering there are a lot of corporate open-source projects, that are not democratically maintained and clearly only serve the interest of the company, who created it (like chromium for example).
So I am mainly talking about community-oriented FOSS projects here.
And if you were to agree with my statement, would you say that developing FOSS software is advancing the goals of the anarchist / communist project, because it is laying the groundwork infrastructure needed for a new kind of economy and society?
Thought this could be an interesting discussion!
Isn’t protecting workers from exploration on of the core goals of communism?
maybe but its not the sum totality of it. So I assume communists would like the gpl but view it as unnecessary. I mean judging from what I have heard and read for stallman. I think he would like the gpl to be unnecessary. That all knowledge be free. Its ip law that requires it because of monotenazation of it. So it uses ip law against itself.