I have a feeling that the FLOSS movement in spirit was constructed in the previous centralised computing paradigm with timesharing systems, and in some sense is left there. I wonder what its corresponding movement of our time would be, now that the pendulum has swung back from the desktop computing paradigm and into dumb terminals over a document format?
@albin As I see it: decentralization.
@alcinnz I think so, but not just that. If they used copyright law and GPL, I think we need to do similar forays into other fields, but I'm still quite fuzzy on the details of what that means.
@lupine For me the code is a means, not an end. The most interesting parts of the free software movement to me were always the slightly utopian visions (and I think they are very clearly widely different) about the societies around and through the code. I can imagine both communal centralised computing and individualised libertarian computing springing from the same roots, just to name two.
Do you have a good source on copy far left?
What about turning all people to #hackers?
Many call this an #utopia, while to me its the inevitable effect and necessary cause of progress in #IT. Also it's the obvious consequence of the core #freedom of #FreeSoftware, the freedom to modify the software: why such freedom should be reserved to a caste of privileged programmers?
#Hacking today is what writing was in Ancient Egypt. We need to go beyond JavaScript^WMainframes^Whieroglyphs!
Dont think we need/want/could have an individualized solution where everyone does it all by themselves
I'm inspired by Community Supported Agriculture, which has quite a variety of models, what I find really exciting are those where the people getting the food are involved, at the level *they choose*, in the resourcing, governance, admin &/or growing
The Solidarity Agriculure movement in Germany is interesting
https://discourse.solawi.allmende.io/t/clarifications-about-the-solawi-model/345
See linked github issue there
I think the difference between agriculture/artisanship and #hacking (beyond the obvious difference in physical constraints) is that the firsts are mostly technical skills, something you can do, while programming is mostly a method of expression, exactly like writing.
And just like #writing is a precondition of citizenship that support any skill in a physical world, so is #programming in our #cyber world.
@dazinism That would be roughly the shape of my preferred counter-argument to the "hacking for the masses" as well, but thanks for the link, I have never heard of that before!