You sound correct Comrade, however, in my experience, it is very hard to change a mind of people who are strongly biased. Maybe our words matter, but if they are only a drop of truth in a brown nazi sea, they change almost nothing. When I tell a man that franco was mass murderer, but he responds that “this does not matter, cause they were communist”, I see no point to talk more (real situation, sadly). If there is no fertile field, you will fail to grow a seed.

I saw too late, that I broke the “The entire showerthought must be in the title” rule :( Cannot change community now, I suppose.

I did not notice it 😲

One time, I spent whole day arguing with some anarchkiddies about that, and no one gave me a short, convincing argument like that. Their posts were emotional rather than seeking for truth. That’s the difference between debate and dialectics.

All right, that’s an argument. Also, having fun from coding is also a valid argument. Though, from my experience, it is easier to start learning programming from some simple, isolated cases, as in thextbooks, than from real life programs, which can be very nasty and domain-dependent.

Forgive me if I trivialize, but we should not mourn too much: the obvious solution is to pirate it all. Do not waste time and energy for reinventing the wheel in the form of writing open source software. These resources can be used better for Revolution. Instead of diving into exhausting dispute and overintellectual arguments of Stallman, just do what said Marx: seize the means of production. That is, fucking pirate it. It is simple as that.