Software Uprising

The Software Development Corps a non-profit co-operative in the public interest

The Need

Software

Software now controls and dominates almost every aspect of our lives, but the overwhelming mass of it is created by others -- most commonly enormous for-profit corporations who are trying to use it to squeeze every last drop of revenue from our usage. Software is used to advertise at us, to lock us into perpetual subscriptions, to guide us towards purchasing specific additional services and to restrict where we can get those services.

Developers

There are a lot of unemployed software developers, and a lot of people who are interested in software and computing but are finding it difficult to know how to get started. This is especially true for nonwhite nonmale people, many of whom face various career obstacles.

There are also a lot of employed software developers who are well aware that their work largely serves to enrich the plutocracy, and who would far rather be doing something more useful.