I feel like we don’t talk nearly enough about the connection between a lack of social safety net and the present-day struggle to create thriving OSS ecosystems.
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I feel like we don’t talk nearly enough about the connection between a lack of social safety net and the present-day struggle to create thriving OSS ecosystems.
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@anthrocypher
It certainly means the OSS community mostly represents interests of middle-class students and tech professionals who have the free time to contribute.The open knowledge/open community ethos that OSS is part of is empowering, but it is opposed by the same capitalist forces that oppose the social safety net (and lots of other social justice issues.) Unfortunately there are people in the OSS community that say "code has no politics" who don't understand that.
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Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:replied to Ana Hevesi last edited by
@anthrocypher We really don't talk enough about it.
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