• Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    Linus’ power doesn’t come from Ownership, but respect. Anyone can fork it and do what they want, but because Linus is respected, everyone else follows suit.

    Anarchism would function in a similar manner, it wouldn’t be a bunch of opinionated people doing whatever they want, but people generally listening to experts who don’t actually hold systemic power.

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      10 months ago

      Problem is that the average person cannot discern between an actual expert and a charlatan.

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        10 months ago

        Yep. This is why the voice of the people should generally speaking be ignored. This is also why 90% of people should be ignored when deciding economic policies.

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        10 months ago

        And yet Linux works fine. Not everyone needs to be a dev, devs can tell the difference between an expert and a charlatan.

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          10 months ago

          I meant that as a reply to the second paragraph which generalised anarchism; including the non-Linux world.
          I also disagree that this isn’t an issue in the broader Linux community however. See for example the loud minority with an irrational hate against quite obviously good software projects like systemd who got those ideas from charlatans or “experts”.

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            10 months ago

            I know, I used Linux as an example. Just like not everyone needs to be a weatherman to trust weatherman that can recognize experts among themselves, so too can engineers recognize experts among themselves, and so forth.

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      10 months ago

      I would disagree and say it’s more akin to a philosopher king hence less anarchy and more monarchy. It’s all good until the king dies and let’s see who succeeds them.

      It will be most telling when Linus dies.