[lbo-talk] the "principles of solidarity"

[dndlllio at aol.com]

On 9/25/11 3:20 PM, SA wrote:
> I don't get it. Why the Unitarian-therapeutic tone, the prefatory 
> hand-wringing and throat-clearing, the randomly appended issues? (Open 
> source?!)
Workers who produce code may not be confused by the inclusion of open 
source, but then again, they may have objections too:

" Open source is a development methodology; free software is a social 
movement. For the free software movement, free software is an ethical 
imperative, because only free software respects the users' freedom. By 
contrast, the philosophy of open source considers issues in terms of how 
to make software "better"---in a practical sense only. It says that 
nonfree software is an inferior solution to the practical problem at 
hand. For the free software movement, however, nonfree software is a 
social problem, and the solution is to stop using it and move to free 
software."

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html