I'm often surprised to hear that many people believe that #OpenSource was this new radical idea in software development that came about in the 80s. That is actually backwards. Open Source was the default way software was developed before the 80s, and #proprietary development changed that. The #FreeSoftware movement was a direct response to software going #proprietary. It put #UserFreedom front and center as the reason why #software should be free and open.
@eighthave I think you are wrong. This is only something, conservatives try to make us believe. A market is not more then a way organizing the coordination of people with different interests in a way, each one can become happy his way not hindering anyone becoming happy another way.
So it is in no way connected to maximizing the earnings of companies. Further more: all serious theoreticians made sure, ethics have to formulate the goals and boundary conditions of markets. Beginning with Smith.
@eighthave But this is, how neoliberal ideologists often work: Faking history, laying and betraying. Not that I fight against using markets, but misusage is something we have to fight.