
Came across it in DisCO Elements, originally seems to be from here: https://www.willystreet.coop/pages/seven-cooperative-principles
Came across it in DisCO Elements, originally seems to be from here: https://www.willystreet.coop/pages/seven-cooperative-principles
“I’m increasingly convinced that OSS as such is broken as a means of protecting against corporate exploitation, and it should not be celebrated as an end in itself. … Rather than fixating on licensing, it might be more relevant to all of us to discuss the possibility of an “exit to community”
https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/2862/why-not-make-cloudron-fully-open-source-again/35
node "knowledge is power" as knowledge node "documentation is praxis" as documentation knowledge --> documentation
However, I now have no direct imperative to financially support some orgs/projects I like (GreenNet, Wallabag, etc).
I could self-host and donate, but then it probably ends up costing more if you factor in time and money combined.
I wonder if the purity of ‘self-host everything’ goes a little too far.
I think perhaps my preferred middle ground would be ownership of data, and remunerating orgs I like to provide apps that operate on that data.
This is a little bit like Solid‘s approach.
See also Free software economics I guess.
https://wordpress.org/support/wordpress-version/version-5-6/#the-squad
Because all the day’s computers, including Galaksija, ran their programs on cassette, Regasek thought Modli might broadcast programs over the airwaves as audio during his show. The idea was that listeners could tape the programs off their receivers as they were broadcast, then load them into their personal machines.
https://tribunemag.co.uk/2020/07/make-your-own-self-managed-socialist-microcomputer