Re: <nettime> Interview with Richard Stallman in New Left Review (September-October 2018)

[Frederick Noronha <fredericknoronha@gmail.com>]

Just because some big, bad, greedy corporation is going to take over all such movements, it does not mean that one should give up on one's dreams.

Likewise, after a number of anti-colonial struggles, the regimes which replaced them were rife with corruption, misrule and the very antithesis of striving towards a better world. But that does not mean we should have opted for the colonial situation, right? FN

Florian Cramer <flrncrmr@gmail.com> wrote: 
> It's one thing to sell your labor as alienated labor to a company, 

> knowing full well that you get exploited. It's another thing to 

> contribute to free software as a volunteer and (at least partially) 

> idealist cause and see others make $30 billions with it.
 

#  distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission
#  <nettime>  is a moderated mailing list for net criticism,
#  collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets
#  more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l
#  archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org
#  @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject: