Easy prediction: people who have been taught to confuse and through the misleading terms and will now be led to further accept the privatization of by small, innovative (and easy to acquire) start-ups.

@Shamar
Perhaps an unpopular opinion, the obvious ambiguity of the word free in the context of software doomed the movement from ever spreading to the mainstream. Not a single non-technical person I've ever met really appreciated the phrase or its importance even after explanation, and the movement is older than I am.

Wholeheartedly agree re: ethical startups though. need to become the norm.

@jump_spider

As for the "stigma" of the "free" world, tbh I've always thought it's just bullshit.

Recently I realized that it's just an and issue (because current is itself a US thing, despite being an evolution of a way more ancient system).

Having said that, obviously to people who can't code is totally equivalent to one except for the price.

There is no to study, modify and distribute modified versions for them.

This is something that we should fix, by teaching everybody how to and .

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As for , do you have any link to share? Sound interesting, but I know nothing about them.

@Shamar
Absolutely agree about how everyone needs to learn how to program and debug; if the Internet survives the biosphere crisis, I fully expect basic web languages to be considered a form of literacy in the future in economically prosperous countries.

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This is embarrassing but I actually need to do more reading into worker owned collectives myself, so I'll be sure to toot something at a later date. The gist as I understand it is that it's a company where each employee is also a full owner and instead of generating profits for a legally separate corporate entity, profits are fully distributed among worker-owners. I imagine it's like if the entire company is unionized instead of the historical management/union dichotomy.

I only learned about them from the CSL (I think it is) that went around the fediverse a bit ago; a software license that can only be used by individuals and worker owned collectives.

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