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invest fully into FOSS ie computer communism
Doctorow's new book is pretty good (the internet con)

>>25925
>FOSS ie computer communism
Wrong. Free Software isn't really tied to ideology. There are at least as many lolbert fart huffers in FOSS as there are socialists. Only copyleft scare-the-hoes licenses like AGPL protect you from capital. Curious about the book you mention though, can you give a quick synopsis?

To cross both subjects you could develop free just as good alternatives to paid high performance software made by shitty companies. I don't know such examples though.

Good luck with high performance, and remember that performance always matters, no matter what they try to tell you!

Am in a similar position of looking for project ideas, or life direction. Thought could maybe make a imageboard for leftists with enough ad revenue to fund quality moderation, but in retrospect this seems completely foolish. Software probably isn't useful for union organizing for the reasons argued by Jane McAlevey (in person actions are a sort of check on the ability of the organization to act). Implementing Cockshott style planning may not be particularly applicable or useful either, though Cockshott has some software somewhere. Supposedly Cambridge Analytica made some influence on the election, but that was from having an application which already had millions of users. Anyway just some counter points.

Beautiful images on this site?

>>25939
>Good luck with high performance, and remember that performance always matters, no matter what they try to tell you!
I don't know what kind of professional software you've been using if you think performance matters. What matters most for professional software is an ocean of features so it can cover every niche, which is what lots of open source productivity software has trouble with, due to the much more limited developer man-hours.

>>26184
>What matters most for professional software is an ocean of features so it can cover every niche
This really does seem to be the case for consumer facing software.

You should look into "operations research", that's the euphemism for economic planning, and there's some compute intensive algorithms that can benefit from HPC.

>>26203
Okay, materially non-copyleft licenses have a petit-bourgeois class character.