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Marxism and FLOSS. (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I think that a Marxist society should allow for 0 proprietary software, and instead support for everything in free and open source decentralized technology.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

yes, the vast majority of distros are based on another distro (which may be based on another, and ...)

Linux is not Unix-based in the sense that it's a fork of Unix (the latter is proprietary), but it's certainly based on Unix's design, just like the various BSDs

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That makes sense.

I didn't realise Unix was proprietary. It's amazing what you can't find out when you don't realise that an assumption is even open to challenge. I never thought to question this but now i looked into it a little, things are clearer. This article was useful: https://www.howtogeek.com/182649/htg-explains-what-is-unix/.

Thanks for the info.