Logical proofs and reason have historically been highly ineffective at convincing people with this axe to grind (perhaps a paid for axe...).
A strategy that MIGHT be more successful, or at least a new strategy, would be to set up an actual communistic free software ecosystem and then demonstrate that no one uses it and it has basically no overlap with the existing non communist ecosystem.
"The world is flat" "Well OK if you're so sure, then we'll build something that depends on it being flat" "Well that didn't work, I wonder what that implies about the world being flat?"
You could consider it a performance art project. I would.
I am serious although I have the wisdom to know I do not have the ability and skills at this time to do it. And if anyone wants to pick up the (red) banner and run with it, I'd cheer them on.
Historically going back 10-20 years there were linux distributions from communist countries, but I'm talking about real commie software, as in a commune of devs with an explicitly communist license.
If nothing else is accomplished, writing and publishing the official explicit CPL Communist Public software License would tend to take the hot air out of some sails...
One problem is I'm not a communist. Finding one might be an excellent first step for the project. Its going to require deep domain specific knowledge.
There have never been any communist states. In western countries communist state refers to states with Leninist-Marxist ideology that some would argue are in fact not even socialist states.
My argument is that we don't have to create a communist software ecosystem because the current FOSS one that you probably use yourself already is very close to communism.
Probably as close as it can get given that it exists within a capitalistic society.
A strategy that MIGHT be more successful, or at least a new strategy, would be to set up an actual communistic free software ecosystem and then demonstrate that no one uses it and it has basically no overlap with the existing non communist ecosystem.
"The world is flat" "Well OK if you're so sure, then we'll build something that depends on it being flat" "Well that didn't work, I wonder what that implies about the world being flat?"
You could consider it a performance art project. I would.
I am serious although I have the wisdom to know I do not have the ability and skills at this time to do it. And if anyone wants to pick up the (red) banner and run with it, I'd cheer them on.
Historically going back 10-20 years there were linux distributions from communist countries, but I'm talking about real commie software, as in a commune of devs with an explicitly communist license.
If nothing else is accomplished, writing and publishing the official explicit CPL Communist Public software License would tend to take the hot air out of some sails...
One problem is I'm not a communist. Finding one might be an excellent first step for the project. Its going to require deep domain specific knowledge.