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The graying open source community needs fresh blood (www.theregister.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/programming

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm just picking on a point that's not relevant to your comment's core idea, I'm not saying we shouldn't share software or other goods and services with worker coops:

worker coops, which don’t violate workers’ rights.

Under capitalism worker cooperatives will also violate the rights of its workers even if less than traditional companies, because that's what capitalism demands for their survival on the market.

I think it's kind of challenging to legally define what makes a party "worthy" of making use of the software or digital work. I think you would need to go on a case-by-case basis, but at that point it probably makes more sense to just make software source-available and actively encourage people to reach out to you to get permission to use the software and to modify and redistribute it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I have a specific theory of rights in mind. This theory of rights proposes worker coops as the only rights respecting way of organizing labor relations based on the inalienability of responsibility. I'm not using rights in a general vague sense to refer to harm.

Worker coops view workers differently than capitalist firms. They see labor as a fixed factor e.g. worker coops cut wages not jobs during economic, downturns.

The theory of rights I have in mind can fit in a license @programming