[motohagiography]

open source let some of the most brilliant people in the world find each other, collaborate, and coordinate to produce a tech ecosystem that transformed our whole species and its quality of life in three short decades. it succeded. there are no poor FOSS contributors either.

the music industry is a bad model to emulate because the incentives are even worse than FOSS to rob creators. Streaming platforms paying out fractions of a cent for thousands of uses would be the example software would likely converge on. what free software did phenomenally well is establish merit and signal capability in a culture that produced the most wealth of any other era.

who is it broken for? maybe people who want to use tech as a proxy to govern people without adding value, but i'd argue that's a feature not a bug.

[justinclift]

> there are no poor FOSS contributors either.

How sure about that are you?

Asking because there seem to have been plenty of posts over the years from people working on OSS stuff, who are or have faced financial difficulties.

[motohagiography]

many troubled people who have experienced homelessness and addiction as well, but if you are committing code to projects that people use, you are separate and a part of a rich community

[justinclift]

Ahhh, I misunderstood your usage of the poor/rich terms there. You're not meaning financially. :)