[openrisk]

Its always an interesting dynamic: assuming a high trust society pays dividends - Python would be nowhere close the success it has been without PyPI.

But then success attracts trust abusers and forces raising the fences (which comes with higher costs, both direct and indirect).

Direct costs in the people and infrastructure that must be dedicated to the task. Indirect costs in the frictions generated by complicating workflows.

It all points to the need for open source ecosystems to be taken more seriously by the economically able users who most benefit from this amazing development.

[LtWorf]

They won't pay anything unless they are forced to do so. Basic capitalism brings to externalise costs to society

[NeutralCrane]

Perhaps, but can you explain how an alternative to capitalism wouldn’t result in people no paying for a service they don’t have to pay for?

[yencabulator]

People in more communally oriented societies pay for things they "don't have to" pay for because there's a social obligation.

[LtWorf]

In an alternative system you can get a salary from the government to work on open source software, and the companies pay for that in taxes. Of course you must embargo Malta, Netherlands and all the other countries that thrive on grabbing taxes from other countries.