Re: <nettime> Interview with Richard Stallman in New Left Review (September-October 2018)

[Emery Hemingway <ehmry@posteo.net>]

A fight for economic rights for software workers is a fight for paid/dual
licensing model of open source, and a fight against the entire open source
establishment. First against the naive/senile GNU theorists, next the Open
Source Initiative, then IBM and Microsoft (they love open source), and then
the Chinese multinationals, who have profited most from an environment of
"free as in free".

Its not all gloom however, regardless of whatever new model we decide on,
we can still rip-off all the existing open source code under the current
licensing regime, same as everyone else.

E.

On Sunday, October 28, 2018 10:02:53 PM CET, Florian Cramer wrote:
> Today, IBM announced that it will buy up Red Hat for $30 
> billion. That value was mostly created by the labor of 
> volunteer, un- or underpaid developers of the Free/Libre/Open 
> Source software that makes up Red Hat's products. These people 
> will not see a dime of IBM’s money. There need to be discussions 
> of economic flaws and exploitation in the FLOSS 
> development/distribution model.
>
> -F
>
>
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