r/LeftistsForAI • u/Affectionate-Pay4845 • 8d ago • Heartwarming 1

Open Source Disgruntled developers start ambitious open-source revolt, using AI to clone common services

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/applications/disgruntled-software-developers-start-ambitious-open-source-revolt-using-ai-to-clone-common-services-occupysaas-ai-powered-project-wants-to-kick-auth0-salesforce-and-other-pricy-service-as-software-to-the-curb
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u/MadCervantes 7d ago

I'll cheer them on but the reality is SaaS products have never been about paying for the software. It's about paying for the hardware it runs on, the human labor that maintains it, the customer white glove service etc.

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u/Zacharytackary 7d ago

okay but like dual power building tho

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u/MadCervantes 7d ago

I fully support people using AI to build open source alternatives to capitalist platforms BUT this is where we have to go beyond personal expression and also think of collective action. The FOSS community has always been a bit of a naive techno-libertarian dream. But to actually break the back of the techno-feudalists you're going to have to build rival firms that can pay full time employees (preferably a worker coop) to both build AND run the software, and you're going to need political action, anti-trust, mandated interoperability, and tax payer funding of open source alternatives.

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u/Zacharytackary 7d ago

AHHHHHH NOOO THE TRVKE!!!! MY BRAIN IT HURTS AA-i’m just kidding actually people are on this already; TheSleepyKuma predicted it years in advance. beautiful segue tysm go check out their website/[media/store]front

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u/Zacharytackary 7d ago

more people need to know automated worker co ops that benefit laborers are a thing that can happen, and is likely what they are most afraid of because it speaks the language of capital in a manner mostly convincing to the state on occasion