>>818640
>this is your brain on /pol/
The GNU coreutils, shell, etc, are all still widely used. Hurd failed because of the poor technical choice of modifying the Mach microkernel instead of building a new one from scratch. Because Hurd took too long, Linux happened to come out first. Thus, interest in Hurd dropped. The reasons were technical, not political.
Moreover, the term "software communism" could just as easily apply to any OSS or FOSS.
Here's an example of the anarcho-communist argument against wage labor (capitalism) as an incentive to work:
<Well-being, that is to say, the satisfaction of physical, artistic, and moral needs, has always been the most powerful stimulant to work. And when a hireling produces bare necessities with difficulty, a free worker, who sees ease and luxury increasing for him and for others in proportion to his efforts, spends infinitely far more energy and intelligence, and obtains first-class products in far greater abundance. The one feels riveted to misery, the other hopes for ease and luxury in the future. In this lies the whole secret. Therefore a society aiming at the well-being of all, and at the possibility of all enjoying life in all its manifestations, will supply voluntary work which will be infinitely superior and yield far more than work has produced up till now under the goad of slavery, serfdom, or wagedom.
- Peter Kropotkin, "The Conquest Of Bread"
Much of the book is spent railing against Marxist state "socialism" and any wage systems (markets and soon-to-be USSR), arguing instead that people left to their own devices will self-organize efficiently because they have needs, are social beings, and enjoy fulfilling work. It's not about forced equality, it's about not having forced inequality. As he says, "all is for all". Do what you want.
How does this not describe Linux, originally created as a hobby project?
>who are pragmatic capitalists
But where is the wage labor? Hell, where are the markets?
>>818488 (OP)
People don't seed because they're afraid of the state coming after them. Some already use Tor as an overlay and/or a VPN, but it's slow. Plus, a lot of people are afraid of using it because it's something for pedos or "l33t haxx0rs", whereas they just want movies for free.
Beside that, have seeding on by default and give a download speed penalty for having a leech:seed ratio within the bottom 5% (or 10%, whatever works) if the system is running into a bottleneck because not enough people are uploading. Unless there's someone running large servers for torrenting things and doing the min-max math (which begs the question of why they want p2p in the first place), no one's going to do the work to maximize their downloads while minimizing uploads. Everyone agrees to the potential slowdown if they all make the most selfish choice in return for the high likelihood that it will promise better overall outcomes for everyone.