FOSS doesn't work because it is literally Communism. There is no mechanism to determine whether or not some product is in demand, and additionally there is no mechanism to reward labor even if demand goes up. This is why so much FOSS isn't that good, since it relies on donations.
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>>100181107some of the most successful and used software is FOSS anon
>>100181147There are always anomalies due to other variables that are unaccounted for in the system. Plus, "most successful and used" doesn't matter if the maintainers get paid pennies by large corporations.
>>100181107>>100181175i agreeyou lived off of donations from your parents for 18 years and look how you turned out
>>100181107OSS isn’t communism. Anymore than not having slaves isn’t comunism.
>>100181107>Foss doesn't workFOSS works because it forces out of touch by design corporations to prioritize the software we want. They can either steal it and make it better or actually try and make their own to compete with it. Either way, the consumer wins
>>100181107slimy corporate oligarch hands typed this post
>>100181107> There is no mechanism to determine whether or not some product is in demandBased. People should write software they want to write. Not software they are compelled to write.> additionally there is no mechanism to reward labor even if demand goes upBased. Fuck your demand. Learn how to stop being so greedy. If you really need it, do it yourself.
>There are always anomalies due to other variables that are unaccounted for in the system.
>>100181175Chromium is an anomaly?
>>100181274>having slaves is communismcorrect>oss isn't communismit is though.
>>100181412chromium is the next generation of prism content and a spyware platform masquerading as a browser. it became successful the moment that spyware that brought in income performed better than software developed normally. rather than success, they used the muscle of web standard beaurocracy to push outdated browsers off the internet.
>>100181107I will tell you about a FOSS model that works, is ethical and makes money:>company make product>open sources the code (usually mit licence but some do even agpl)>offer paid consulting for problems, questions and debugs to companies and individuals
>>100181107FOSS is quite literally betterAnd doesn't your chart mean gommunism is.. le good?
>>100182371Communism is bad, but it turns out that CIA-backed capitalism is only marginally better.
>>100182381Indeed
I've solved communism. 0. Seize the means of production.1. Open source your means of production.2. Fork the granaries and the farms that produce the grain.3. Have unlimited food for your populaceNo thanks needed, Karl.
>>100181588>I'm anti communism>But a company offering a product for "free" is not capitalism because I don't like itI don't know why I am so surprised how stupid this place is. The same board full or faggots that refuse to RTFM also refuses to read literally any book.
>>100181107Fuck off nigger
>>100181107>meduzapublished a series of flash cards for kids to teach them why they should support Israel
>>100183014Kek
>>100183086>you're not a communist!? well youre just ah coinist>haha hows your "free market now"theres no such thing as a free market you dumb illiterate commie. communism is just capitalism 2.
>>100183386Communism is just capitalism that works. See China
>>100183407no, communism is just capitalism.they both work to keep the rich rich. one works by making it legal to buy anything, the other works by making it illegal not to buy things you dont want. the end goal is always to protect the top 1%
>>100183407china's communism started "working" in the modern world when hu jintao's government promoted private ownership and reduced the restrictions on international trade. you could not have picked a dumber datapoint than china to challenge his premise that communism is "capitalism 2"
>>100183407China is more capitalist than America, retard.Lower tax burden, lower government size. (Look it up)No free healthcare, no tranny surgeries, no socialist bs.
>>100183509amerimutts literally cannot comprehend that everything they have including guns is made in china
>>100181107FOSS works, under certain circumstances. But yes, if you just make a shitty little FOSS project with no plans to monetize, it will always stay a shitty little FOSS project.Even in the best case scenario where you are an insanely dedicated autist AND you get other insanely dedicated autists to maintain your software and deal with angry entitled faggots posting bug reports and feature requests, all for free, forever, you still cannot compete with the projects where there is an actual incentive system and structure to support the continued development and expansion of the software.
>>100181107You can copy FOSS code for free without anyone having to put effort into it, you can't copy food in a communist country that way.In communism everyone has to work, in FOSS everyone gets everything for free, contributions are voluntary and an upstream improvement benefits everyone instantly unlike in non-digital real life scenarios.tl;dr OP is a retard
>>100185128>you still cannot compete with the projects where there is an actual incentive systemThe incentive argument is Amerimutt economics-as-culture retardation. People have pride.The actual reason FOSS lags behind commercial software is because the developers of the former simply lack time and resources, while the latter has plenty of them because developing the software is his day job/side hustle.
>>100183509>No free healthcare90% subsidized. 0% in America.
>>100183429Hu Jintao was way more conservative than Jiang or Deng and activelly saved SOEs from privatization, enforced minimum wage, enforced labor law in cities, created a system of national champions (subsidised para-government multinational enterprises). He was the start of conservative wave and Xi just walked in
>>100181107These fucking graphs are always so unbelievably specific and focus on completely useless and immaterial shit like "inequality" instead of poverty, income, or even standard of living.
Now add income in absolute numbers, or relative to world average income.
>>100187261>2000 onwards
>>100181107>FOSS doesn't workI dunno about that friend:>Postgres>Linux>Python>Java (everyone uses OpenJDK)>Git>Pretty much every language anyone cares about >OpenSSH>Firefox>ChromiumReally, its successful proprietary software that's the exception.
>>100181107>There is no mechanism to determine whether or not some product is in demandClout>additionally there is no mechanism to reward labor even if demand goes upClout and employability
>>100181107Donations are capitalism. You choose to give money to the project based on what you think it’s worth.Or you can donate your time by working on the project.Capitalism is about you being able to choose how you spend your money provide your labor.FOSS isn’t communism because there isn’t a government entity forcing you to use it, donate to it, or contribute to it.You’re a retard.
