[anticorporate]

How to pay for the open source commons is far from a solved problem, but I'm glad individuals are trying to make it work for themselves anyway.

I wish we wouldn't act like producing software and making gobs of money are inextricably linked. Yes, we absolutely need to find a way to fund people who are building critical infrastructure. But sometimes, "I quit my job to work on open source" can be more akin to "I quit my job to hike the Appalachian Trail." I wish tech had a lot fewer people who were here for the money.

[dingnuts]

>I wish we wouldn't act like producing software and making gobs of money are inextricably linked. Yes, we absolutely need to find a way to fund people who are building critical infrastructure

Don't you see the contradiction? Critical infrastructure costs gobs of money. The software has to pay for itself, or it has to survive on crumbs; that's just reality. Software is really, really expensive to create and maintain, because it takes a lot of time, and time costs money.

I wish Richard Stallman hadn't duped a generation into thinking that they have to use licenses that make Amazon richer instead of just using proprietary licenses to protect yourself, as the licenses were designed to do, so that people with more lawyers can't just steal your work.

Why did our whole generation listen to a guy who was caught on camera eating something off of his foot?

[bad_user]

> I wish Richard Stallman hadn't duped a generation into thinking that they have to use licenses that make Amazon richer instead of just using proprietary licenses to protect yourself, as the licenses were designed to do, so that people with more lawyers can't just steal your work.

This is why I like Open Source instead of Free Software. There's no practical difference between the two in terms of licences that are compatible with the two definitions. However, Free Software is an ideology that considers proprietary software to be immoral. Whereas Open Source is a perspective that only cares about the economics of producing software, and is perfectly compatible with capitalism.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/

Note, there are many scenarios for which I find Amazon getting rich off OSS work is perfectly OK, even advantageous for the contributors, since that kind of freedom and control is the whole point of OSS. It's just that being paid for your OSS contributions is probably not one of those scenarios, and people need to be aware of it, indeed.