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So I just read Bill Gates' 1976 Open Letter To Hobbyists, in which he whines about not making more money from his software. You know, instead of being proud of making software that people wanted to use. And then the bastard went on and made proprietary licences for software the industry standard, holding back innovation and freedom for decades. What a douche canoe.

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[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (8 children)

Anarchists believe that "all property is theft"? Lol

[–] KittyJynx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 8 months ago (3 children)

There is some disagreement between people who, for example, favor Proudhon versus those who favor Kropotkin over the ownership of personal tools that are involved in individual trade-craft. As with any ideology there are varying schools of thought but the common ideological baseline is that anything that requires capital investment should be collectively controlled and operated for the common good. A person's personal possessions including their home and tools required for self sufficiency are not considered "property" or a "means of production" by almost anyone.

A good real world example is the FOSS community, most of us would be quite vexed to say the least if someone started changing stuff on our personal computers but we also actively share our code, experience, and knowledge with the world for free. Same goes for the open hardware folks, permacomputing community, and the open research community.

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Yet none of that can be interpreted as "all property is theft" unless you redefine what "property" itself means which is a terrible strategy for advertising Anarchy.

[–] cnlwhs@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 8 months ago

You're wrong because I have absolutely no knowlege about the term you're using!

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