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Free Software Movement
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The Free Software Movement is an example of an emergent movement with anarchist characteristics. The nature of the GPL and many other free licenses is such that there is a collective sharing of resources (in this case, source code) between all developers, thus putting into practice the theories behind anarcho-socialists' perspective on private property and economic organization.
Though it can be said that it put in principle of anarcho-capitalism in practice. It can also be considered a classical example of perfect competition in a free market economy. comment5,
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