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by andsoitis 1076 days ago
> Contribute exclusively to open source and let big software corporations die.

Sounds like you’re either in the privileged position to not have to earn a living or you earn a living outside the software industry. For many of us, we prefer to get paid to write software and make interesting products.

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Thousands of people make a living off open source and many are interesting products. Going commercial makes it easier to make a living. If making a living on open source is privileged, that privilege comes from hard work and some luck.
> Thousands of people make a living off open source

Meanwhile, there are an estimated 26.9 million professional software engineers in the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_engineering_demograph...

Many of us prefer otherwise. Why is my identity coupled to serving your sensibilities?

Compensation just means money cause the story goes that makes primates still coupled to Earth and social norms (make money) freer?

Ok. Yeah.

Why is how I have to utilized technology coupled to your preference to make money? Just as arbitrary a social ideology as religion, since it’s not a divine mandate. It’s just clinging to some abstract historical barnacle, LARPing proper stewardship of reality.

LLMs hallucinate because humans hallucinate.