Win what? TFA is published on a platform owned by Microsoft.
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I always thought that the whole point of computers and software was to make machines to do the scut work so we could all take a break and explore the universe Star Trek-style.
You don't win by making money, you win by obviating the need for money at all.
Science has delivered technology and wealth (it's not evenly distributed, of course, but that's not the problem I'm talking about.)
If we apply the technology we already have we can take care of everybody on earth (and mitigate the climate change) and you just sit around and write software or play video games or whatever you like.
That's how FOSS wins: "Let the robots do the work and we'll take their pay."
> You don't win by making money, you win by obviating the need for money at all.
Yes, a post-scarcity society would be very nice indeed. That's why we need a total abundance of free and open source software not owned by corporations. If we don't make this software, we'll be subjected to their dystopian artificial scarcity where they charge you for nothing and create economies where there ought to be none.
There is already an abundance of free and open source software, so much that it would take a lifetime even to catalog it. (One of the most inexplicable things to me is how people prefer to pay for proprietary software rather than learn to use free FOSSoftware. "Bigfoot lives on Endor.")
We made the software already, is my point. We have the technology. It's just a matter of getting the word out, and logistics. The computers can solve the logistics. (This is Bucky Fuller's idea: the World Game https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Game )
We're not subjected to artificial scarcity now except by choice.
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I always thought that the whole point of computers and software was to make machines to do the scut work so we could all take a break and explore the universe Star Trek-style.
You don't win by making money, you win by obviating the need for money at all.
Science has delivered technology and wealth (it's not evenly distributed, of course, but that's not the problem I'm talking about.)
If we apply the technology we already have we can take care of everybody on earth (and mitigate the climate change) and you just sit around and write software or play video games or whatever you like.
That's how FOSS wins: "Let the robots do the work and we'll take their pay."