FOSS and the sublimation of commodity fetishism

Re:FOSS and the sublimation of commodity fetishism by vkou on Friday November 22, 2013 @10:54AM (#6781463)

The point this article makes, is that FOSS are not exploited - but rather, that FOSS is a very effective way for the privileged and financially secure to gain social capital.

I think the HN articles of the past few days "We only hire people with Github accounts" demonstrate that those social rewards are real.

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Re:FOSS and the sublimation of commodity fetishism by steveklabnik on Friday November 22, 2013 @11:06AM (#6781563)

To be clear: within a Marxist framework, the only way to gain capital is to exploit others. So your second half is correct, but your first half is wrong, unless (which I suspect you are) that you're using a different definition of exploitation than the article.

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