Political Memes

free software and free culture are probably two of the most successful and enduring lowkey anticapitalist movements in human history.

Because they aren't lmao. Big tech predominanly runs linux on it's servers. Big capital isn't being damaged by FOSS, they profit out of it.

You’re also conflating monetary hoarding, with success of actual use.

Money = ability to develop more features. Linux is on servers. Linux barely fights the fight to be the gaming PC platform. FOSS completely loss mobile battle, whatever we have there looks more like survival than existence. Money would solve all these issues. Money FOSS didn't attract.

Dwarf Fortress

Not open source. See, this doesn't matter in games scenario. Being indie is already a huge plus, and people would buy your game just to support that (if it doesn't suck). Because yes, working on your game nonstop 20 years is something that should be rewarded.

loaded assumption of private property as something that’s default and justified

Loaded assumption that I need to justify my private property.

when someone provides software to you that does not respect your rights to use, study, copy, modify, and share that software, then what they are doing is establishing an unequal - and thus unjust - power relationship over you

Which is unethical, but not illegal. Because nothing forces your to use that software.

Surveillance should be illegal, no questions here. User privacy should be sacred, and it should be written into constitutions.

So people should be allowed to steal, assault others, and kill? Please try to make less sense.

These are crimes. Immoral things are not crimes. Otherwise we end up in much worse society, like those who enforce moral guidelines of specific religions.

And in this highly highly specific case, in which you were either too poor or too negligent as a founder to bother getting a real office to run your organization out of

MY organization? I thought we are talking communism. OUR organization. And I can't supply you with all the means of production, COMRADE. I'm not a WEALTHY CAPITALIST after all. So if you have your own PC and want a job, it's now OUR PC. And if you don't want a job, it means you are social parasite, and we probably better to take your PC anyway.

Even if you’re using it as a “means of production”, it’s arguable the hardware should still be considered “personal property,” since it blurs a line between something you’re using for work-related activities as well as personal activities, in addition to the fact that no other workers have any kind of stake in it.

My home server too? What about LLM server rack with tonnes of videocards? Who draws this line, and why anyone draws this line for the stuff I buy with my own money? Is that what you think freedom is?

But even in your new scenario, how is the outlandish idea of someone coming to your house to take your pc even in the realm of realistic possibility?

I'm from post-soviet country. I've seen this mentality in action.

which implies a single person, doing their own thing - a freelancer

A -> B, where A is false.

Why do I need to be freelancer? Maybe I'm a vigilant builder of the new society, who noticed a KULAK who owns his own PC, and I want to help him by donating his PC for the GREATER GOOD?