I have found it not so simple to be able to find socialist literature regarding software and software development, and I was wondering if you had any recommendations for myself, and anyone who may find this post in the future. (And if there’s an already existing post which details various sources on the matter, that would also be appreciated).

But I mostly wanted to know if there’s any literature or any analysis on FOSS, and if that’s the best alternative we have currently under capitalism. Because I see a lot of socialist software is usually developed utilizing strong copyleft licenses such as GPL 3.0 (or later) or AGPL 3.0 (or later) (Lemmy, for example).

And I already made another post regarding the ProleWiki page on FOSS, where I asked about the possibility of including further information in order to make it easier for fellow comrades to learn more about the topic, from a socialist perspective, and not just cling to FOSS for freedom’s sake.

And maybe the possibilty of including some information regarding the views on self-hosting as a way of providing better information security for comrades, as well as include links to resources such as Codeberg for code-hosting, over GitHub, which is owned by Microsoft.

  • ☭ 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗘𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 ☭@lemmygrad.ml
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    8 days ago

    FOSS is the best option for us under capitalism, but it’s only a tool. The economic system is not going to change even if most software were to become open-source; the only solution is revolution.

    In a socialist country, FOSS would still be preferable in most cases (e.g. not when state secrets are involved, and some things need to be kept secret as long as imperialism remains a threat).