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.
It's all very code-focused on the GNU side. What people seem to get interested in with cloud services is the fact that commercial exploitation of the code gets monopolised by those cloud services. So we get copyfarleft and weird stuff like the "commons clause" showing up.
Might actually be impossible to fix though.
@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!
Some ideological communities will pick self-hosting as long as it's possible, of course. For email, it's still marginally possible, but I wouldn't bet on it long-term. Usenet, IRC, XMPP demonstrate its fate
One could imagine a crop variety that is insanely delicious, but if you put it in the existing commons, you'll find it in the supermarket the very next day. What other options are available?
@lupine @Shamar However, if it's specifically control and accountability you are after, couldn't that be solved through less heavy means than turning everyone into hackers? Also, I think it's worth thinking about how this translates to other fields. According to the same logic, do I also need to be able to produce my own food, or do biotech or medicine? Or is there something specific to software, and if so why?
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!