[dis-sys]

Sure, Bilibili's copyright must be respected, no question on that whatsoever. That being said, let's have a look on how this multi-billion company treats its programmers -

flv.js is opened sourced by bilibili, it has 14,668 starts on github [1]. Bilibili paid the smart & hardworking programmer who single handedly started this project and made it popular $700 USD per month [2], there is a very long zhihu.com thread [2] on this matter with 4 million views and almost 400 detailed responses. $700 is about 10% of the fair market rate in China for skills like that.

Sorry, but I am not going to take the moral high ground and defend bilibili's rights any time soon. It is a company violating the rights of its programmers on hourly basis.

Shame on you BiliBili.

[1] https://github.com/Bilibili/flv.js

[2] https://www.zhihu.com/question/53686737

[chippy]

I think you are taking a moral high ground by attacking the company's practices.

I think defending corporate legal rights is mostly not about morality which is why speaking about morals in this story is important.

Like in how the legal system it's not what's right or wrong or truth that's important but legal justice, so we need morality to play a part in making sure it doesn't get out of hand.

[ksec]

> $700 is about 10% of the fair market rate in China for skills like that.

So you are suggesting $7000 for skills like that? There are still countless PHP / Golang / Rails jobs going for under $2K. While I agree $700 is insanely low even if you are in some Tier 3 cities, I don't think 10% paint an accurate picture of the current state of Programming Paid in China.

[dis-sys]

As clearly mentioned in the reply, $7,000/month is the fair market rate for someone who can propose/promote/complete such a project with visible impact on the community.

[ddtaylor]

Even in China, don't you chose to work for someone?

[dis-sys]

oh, you can ask the same question to those millions of Chinese developers forced to work 996. surely that is the solution to the problem.

[ddtaylor]

I don't know much about it, how are they forced? If they don't want to work, what happens?