That is true, it’s because with collectively owned software, the power is put into the hands of the workers who create the program rather than to the “owners” of said program.
It just happens (not by coincidence) that computer programming is heavily euro-centric and the IT industry is flourished under capitalism which leads to capitalists doing this
The term “open source” itself was coined by techbros who wanted to explicitly de-politicize the free software movement and make it into a hobby space for privileged people rather than an ethical mode of production.
The main issue facing workers who create non-privatized software is funding and the Global South should look to providing that funding to collective infrastructure to actually make technological reforms rather than realizing that they don’t have the labor capacity and timeline and then doing nothing because of it.
That is true, it’s because with collectively owned software, the power is put into the hands of the workers who create the program rather than to the “owners” of said program.
It just happens (not by coincidence) that computer programming is heavily euro-centric and the IT industry is flourished under capitalism which leads to capitalists doing this
The term “open source” itself was coined by techbros who wanted to explicitly de-politicize the free software movement and make it into a hobby space for privileged people rather than an ethical mode of production.
The main issue facing workers who create non-privatized software is funding and the Global South should look to providing that funding to collective infrastructure to actually make technological reforms rather than realizing that they don’t have the labor capacity and timeline and then doing nothing because of it.