D Dino
i’ve been thinking a lot about software stewardship and software cooperatives lately, in the context of taking responsibility for the craft as a class of craftspeople. i’ve got an essay on the subject on its third draft so maybe i’ll publish it soon but since im on the bus maybe i’ll just blither about it for a bit.
it’s one thing for workers to control the conditions of their toil but another for craftspeople to take responsibility for their craft, and we need to do both.
D Dino
it’s not enough to produce free alternatives to scabware if we can’t support the labor and materials to steward the ‘ware through every cycle of its development and usage. linux is a spectacular failure in this regard: a vital technology and thriving community eclipsed by corpers who can just buy lifetimes, who can turn our works into rent-generators with impunity. to make better software, we must enmesh our obligations to the craft with our communal survival and wellbeing.
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