@MaddieM4@raphus.social the problem with a coalationist framing of open source is that a political coalition requires broad agreement on and submission to a political system or arena. for example, agreeing on United States constitutionalism as an avenue for securing gun rights. but the crisis (and success) of open source is in a large way derived FROM its assent to the political/legal framing of contemporary neoliberalism. we have built coalitions already, across many disparate groups, on the understanding that a freedom‐ and licence‐based definition of open source is a good and sufficient avenue for advocating our interests. the issue at hand is that open source has reached an inflection point where this is no longer the case; the political architecture of neoliberalism has failed us (as it was always going to do). so the question at hand now is not “how do we build coalitions”, but more “how do we build a new politic with·in which coalitions might form”. this is a much more radical project. and i think an emphasis on community is in fact important, in that all politics are originally and fundamentally community politics, and the idea of building a cross‐community coalition is unimaginable when there does not even exist a community politic with·in which that coalition might be framed and situated.