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For the abolition of work. Yes really, abolish work! Not "reform work" but the destruction of work as a separate field of human activity.

To save the world, we're going to have to stop working! — David Graeber

A strange delusion possesses the working classes of the nations where capitalist civilization holds its sway. ...the love of work... Instead of opposing this mental aberration, the priests, the economists, and the moralists have cast a sacred halo over work. — Paul Lafargue

In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticise after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, herdsman or critic. — Karl Marx

In the glorification of 'work', in the unwearied talk of the 'blessing of work', I see the same covert idea as in the praise of useful impersonal actions: that of fear of everything individual. — Friedrich Nietzsche

If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves. — Lane Kirkland

The bottom line is simple: all of us deserve to make the most of our potential as we see fit, to be the masters of our own destinies. Being forced to sell these things away to survive is tragic and humiliating. We don’t have to live like this. ― CrimethInc

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (14 children)

What are some of the biggest software that we use today that was produced for free?

Do you mean FOSS? Where is that used as a top contender?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (10 children)

Linux powers the majority of servers, supercomputers and embeddeds. Apache HTTP Server and nginx power over 70% of websites, and used to account for almost 100% of all web servers. PHP is used by 80% of websites. MySQL is most likely the datastore for those websites. Git, Subversion, and Mercurial make up the majority of version control systems used for software and research. Python is the language of choice for machine learning and other data sciences. chances are that most websites you connect to via HTTPS are using OpenSSL. Hadoop and Kubernetes powers 'big data'. core protocols like DNS, HTTP, SMTP, TCP/IP were developed as FLOSS. in their respective industries, there's also Android, Audacity, Blender, Firefox, GIMP, InkScape, Krita…

i'm going to preëmpt your use of the word 'free' here. all of this required a great deal of time, effort and infrastructure. developers still need to eat, and that means the money came from somewhere. it is 'free' in the sense that: it is given, not sold; that it was a collaborative volunteer effort; and that you can do whatever you want with it. just because some developers receive some sort of compensation — or work a dayjob and have to survive in a capitalist system — does not mean we need fixed-schedule, ass-in-seats, top-down hostage wage labour to accomplish anything valuable at scale.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 4 months ago (9 children)

Sure, Linux is used in super computers, but there's only around 500 of them.

Linux only has around 4% install base compared to Windows.

And I disagree on the not needing ass in seats metaphor you used; plenty of people who create FOSS do so because of a need/desire, yes, but also because that knowledge helps them make money afterwards.

Would you work your whole life to just create FOSS?

Making free software is a means to an end, and that end means recognition and eventually a well paying job.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Linux only has around 4% install base compared to Windows.

So you're including supercomputers and desktops. What about servers and embedded devices? No kernel is more ubiquitous than Linux.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Enterprise servers? Use Unix, which isn't free

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Go ahead and Google server OS market share. Educate yourself, I'm not interested in arguing with someone who isn't interested in reality over winning an argument. Sincerely, fuck off.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Lmao... You must be a leftist if you insult people when they don't say anything towards you.

Grow up, kid.

[–] Croquette 1 points 4 months ago

You're the petulant child here. He gave you good points and you hand waived it by saying inane shit.

Linux is powering a great number of servers and embedded devices. It is a fact .

But I get it, you are just a troll and whatever will be said, you'll just ignore and continue to spout bullshit.

So go pay for Unix servers and fuck off.

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