The blue LED was supposed to be impossible—until a young engineer proposed a moonshot idea.

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    And open source software is explicitly anti-capitalist.

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      free software is. open source is an attempt to sell free software out to capitalist interest.

      eric raymond and the OSI are not good.

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        There are many forms of free and/or open source software.

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            Yeah, I guess the original statement was too broad, but any FOSS using a GPL license effectively is. I guess not anti-capitalist though, but un-capitalist. It doesn’t try to remove capitalism, it tries to be seperate from it.