Alt text; An image showing a meme about open source software. The top part shows an elephant standing on a beach with text reading “The entire world’s IT infrastructure” superimposed on the elephant. Below this is a large, colorful beach ball being supported by tiny ants, with text reading “Unpaid open source devs.” The meme illustrates how the global IT ecosystem heavily relies on open source software that is often maintained by unpaid volunteer developers who carry a disproportionate burden despite their small numbers.

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  • Psychadelligoat
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    02 days ago

    They’re literally mock-quoting people who make that claim, as OP is a great example as to why that claim is fucking stupid

    • Possibly linux
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      02 days ago

      No where in this post was communism mentioned

      The fact that they are commenting stuff like this shows that they believe this narrative in some form or another.

      • NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ
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        2 days ago

        How the hell did you arrive there? Their entire point is that SO MUCH of our IT infrastructure is community built and supported, no capital incentive required, regardless of what capitalists claim.

        • Possibly linux
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          2 days ago

          I don’t want to start a political debate here so I’ll keep it brief. Foss is mostly supported by corporate interests. Sure there are plenty of community projects but the core stuff is funded by big tech companies.

          I don’t like the idea of Foss being mixed in with Communism and Authoritarianism.