Re: [OT]: May Day
On Sun, May 01, 2016 at 02:26:18PM +0200, Hans Vogelsberger wrote:
> Am Sat, 30 Apr 2016 21:49:06 +0300
> schrieb Piyavkin <piyavkin@gmail.com>:
>
> > Congratulations with International Worker's Day to all the working
> > (in FOSS industry and at all) people! )
> > Have a nice day!
> >
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Dmitry Piyavkin
> >
>
> Why workers only? There are other humans, too.
Obviously Dmitry refers to working-class internationalism, not the
ancient Roman May Day celebration in honor of the goddess of flowers.
Although a gross simplification, workers don't own means of production,
and so their gains depend on social solidarity. He apparently sees FOSS
as an example of where cooperation pays off.
The owners of the means of production gain instead from competition or
monopoly. I suppose they would argue that it is competition between
owners of proprietary software that best explains its development. They
are naturally hostile to FOSS.
Incidentally, I'm not suggesting that FOSS is crypto-socialist.
Haines
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