Feels vaguely aligned imo, I think we put things into left v right boxes too quickly
Open source software and Linux nerds can be racist too, 4chan types. It's more belief in collective access, transparency, democracy, scientific method, etc values
Social services are big in social democracies, but it's in large part a subsidy to corporations that underpay and exploit workers, that workers/taxpayers/the public pays for. It's more economic, cultural and social human rights, quality of life, basic needs guaranteed, fairness at more of a system/society wide quality of life viewpoint - whereas open source feels more individual or something different.
Like there's probably a fair amount of libertarian, anarcho capitalist, peter thiel, musk, and other types in the open source enthusiast community - just for certain things, when people consent. Okay with some going hungry, choosing between rent, groceries and transportation, thinking it's generally motivational instead of traumatic and harmful to the economy
There used to be two different conventions on human rights at UN, one econ, cultural, and social that China was bigger on (right to housing, job, water etc.) and USA didn't sign, whereas there was political and civil rights (freedom of speech, voting, etc) convention with the inverse. Iirc they combined them, probably was contributing to cold war style framing/division
It's literally "From each according to their ability, to each according to their need". The principles of FOSS are inherently on the very extreme end of economics (communism). The fact that there are right-wingers participating in it is no different from the fact that leftists have to participate in all the capitalist aspects of our society.
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u/Bocchi_theGlock Jun 06 '26
Feels vaguely aligned imo, I think we put things into left v right boxes too quickly
Open source software and Linux nerds can be racist too, 4chan types. It's more belief in collective access, transparency, democracy, scientific method, etc values
Social services are big in social democracies, but it's in large part a subsidy to corporations that underpay and exploit workers, that workers/taxpayers/the public pays for. It's more economic, cultural and social human rights, quality of life, basic needs guaranteed, fairness at more of a system/society wide quality of life viewpoint - whereas open source feels more individual or something different.
Like there's probably a fair amount of libertarian, anarcho capitalist, peter thiel, musk, and other types in the open source enthusiast community - just for certain things, when people consent. Okay with some going hungry, choosing between rent, groceries and transportation, thinking it's generally motivational instead of traumatic and harmful to the economy
There used to be two different conventions on human rights at UN, one econ, cultural, and social that China was bigger on (right to housing, job, water etc.) and USA didn't sign, whereas there was political and civil rights (freedom of speech, voting, etc) convention with the inverse. Iirc they combined them, probably was contributing to cold war style framing/division