it's probably not like we could attain a revolution without businesses on our side, though. I don't mean capitalist (our rather feudal) businesses. ISTM USians have been propagandized into believing that getting paid for things or for services means capitalism, even though these trade practices preexisted capitalism for millennia, and the businesses we think of as capitalist have been mainly feudal for over a century.

now, that free software was conceived of to be compatible even with capitalism doesn't mean it's compatible only with that; it's designed for compatibility with various economic systems, perhaps with the exception of feudalism. so we have a lot of room to explore directions to pursue for the revolution, if we (manage to) come to that, without having to break with the core notion that users should be entitled to control their own computing, to live their digital lives in freedom.

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