Communism does not stipulate that there is no organizational hierarchical structure.
Absence of state is true because within the microcosm, you can contribute from anywhere in the world and receive the software for free as well. Basically you don't even know where the people you are dealing with even live most of the time. This is no state by definition.
Let's say you contribute to "NSA open source repository". Still there is no state because you can contribute from anywhere in the world and get the code as well.
Absense of money is true by definition. We are talking about free as in beer software here.
I always thought communism's classlessness necessitated at least some form of flat hierarchy or syndicalism where worker's collectives hold decisions democratically and directly. On the other hand, hierarchical organizations are still fine by some schools of anarchism.
Right, but then absence of state is true for anything involving wide area networking.
Like I said, you're simply listing an absence of per-unit sales where "free as in beer" is concerned. The money is still there in the form of sponsorships, fundraisers, consulting, premium versions, dual licensing, corporate contributors and so on.
And then FOSS has nothing like syndicalism, unions, worker collectives or anything like that.
"absence of state is true for anything involving wide area networking"
I agree, but I think we are talking about different things.
Regarding money, you can be paid a thousand dollars every day for writing FOSS and putting it on github. Still there is no money within the FOSS community because everyone in the community gets it for free. And the person writing it contributes it according to their ability.
Also, if Redhat sells their software to companies under a different license, again it has nothing to do with money within the community. It has to do with the larger capitalist society within which they exist.
Absence of state is true because within the microcosm, you can contribute from anywhere in the world and receive the software for free as well. Basically you don't even know where the people you are dealing with even live most of the time. This is no state by definition.
Let's say you contribute to "NSA open source repository". Still there is no state because you can contribute from anywhere in the world and get the code as well.
Absense of money is true by definition. We are talking about free as in beer software here.