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Rethinking free and open source and its role in the movement against capitalism - "Copyfarleft and Copyjustright" (mastodon.social)

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Rethinking free and open source and its role in the movement against capitalism - "Copyfarleft and Copyjustright"

https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/copyfarleft-and-copyjustright

This is an interesting paper and something like this should be explored. Although, I would shift the anti-capitalist analysis to the labor theory of property and shift some of the critique of property to employment contracts.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Non-profits with workers must also have labor control.

The article's version doesn't account for some use cases.

Non-market systems can operate within the commons and we only need to charge at points where value leaves.

Extensions I've considered:

- Allow proprietary works as long as the commons is appropriately compensated

- Restrict use for creating proprietary works.

- Require collectivizing property also

Distribute licensing funds to projects using quadratic funding

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