Libre Software is Not Enough; We Need to Own the Computers, Collectively

The software that you can see, understand, and control

Richard Stallman and other stalwarts in the libre software movement take the position that software running on other people’s computers (aka, the cloud) is inherently un-free.

This is unfortunate. The Free Software movement embraces that writing software is inherently cooperative.

The Platform Cooperative movement embraces that using software is inherently cooperative.

IndieWeb movement is working on how you can build your own social

Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice by Jessica Gordon Nembhard

Ours to Hack and to Own

THE RISE OF PLATFORM COOPERATIVISM, A NEW VISION FOR THE FUTURE OF WORK AND A FAIRER INTERNET

Jackson Rising: The Struggle for Economic Democracy and Black Self-Determination in Jackson, Mississippi

Twitter and Teargas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest by Zeynep Tufekci https://www.twitterandteargas.org/

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff https://www.shoshanazuboff.com/


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