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Re:On the Darknet, Reputation Is Everything by TeMPOraL on Friday December 22, 2017 @02:30PM (#15990184)
It's not capitalism either, because open source developers don't sell code, or write code under pressure of earning a living. They just write it and give it away.

Not sure what the right word is, but textbook-definition communism fits - open-source code isn't really owned in practical sense.

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Re:On the Darknet, Reputation Is Everything by dukeflukem on Friday December 22, 2017 @03:33PM (#15990675)
My understanding is you have an automatic copyright on the code you create. When you share you can optionally grant a license BSD etc. to let people use that code subject to X. So the code subject is owned.
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Re:On the Darknet, Reputation Is Everything by TeMPOraL on Saturday December 23, 2017 @01:43AM (#15993220)
That's an implementation detail, not the way people in Open Source think of it day-to-day.
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