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This is so reductive. Open source has nothing to do with communism.


As a socialist, I would disagree.

Communism is about a would-be utopia after the workers own the means of production.

For us tech workers, it could be argued that the means of production are source code. Thus, there is a socialist aspect to open source - but that's a good thing!


The means of production are computers, no?


Sorry, I'm a long time lurker but a new poster. I thought that the submit form would prevent link resubmission. I'll do a search next time.


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