I have seen a lot of people compare Linux/FOSS to Communism over the years. Some of it is jokingly with an undercurrent of seriousness like you might find on reddit’s r/linuxmemes or similar stuff like the bugs bunny “Our whatever” memes. Some of it is serious comments like the old Steve Balmer mudslinging (despite him somewhat changing his opinion later)
Figure that most of the crowd here, like myself, probably aren’t big fans of communism. Just curious if that is something that annoys you guys too or not?
What kind of things you might point out to sometime who seriously thought this to convince them otherwise?
Personally, I think of the FOSS movement as being more similar to Libertarianism than to Communism but curious what others here think.
I try to understand what some of these communist say. I think the idea is that communism must come after capitalism. So like; capitalism is a stepping stone for a more advanced society. I’m not really sure because i’ve also heard cavemen were communist.
There’s a form of communism that is markedly different from modern communism called tribal communism. It most certainly does have hierarchies, and often but not always it is patriarchal.