Re:FOSS and the sublimation of commodity fetishism
by steveklabnik on Friday November 22, 2013 @10:48AM
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This is correct. Marxist 'exploitation' does not happen until someone profits, to use other people's terminology. This can only happen when someone is in control of the well, and then uses it in some form of economic exchange. A bunch of people building and then using a well does not have this character, at least as far as this particular thought experiment goes.
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Re:FOSS and the sublimation of commodity fetishism
by lukaseder on Friday November 22, 2013 @11:04AM
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Yes, but individual advantage has lured people away from building wells just for non-profit reasons. Be it economic profit, or even social capital as claimed in the article. Or both.
I don't even think that these things are good or bad, they're just human. And in a way, FOSS has lost its innocence and goes the path of all human endeavours.