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This guy is a machine. Roy fixed several bugs in dhcpcd that allowed the megacorp I worked for to ship dhcpcd in millions of devices. I donated.
but did the megacorp?
This is a sad reminder of the masses of invisible labor (unpaid and paid) that hold up our world. Social scientists have been studying how labor becomes visible (or invisible) for a while without finding obvious solutions to "the situation." How can we build a world where an infinite procession specialists like Roy can get the care they need and also find and train successors in their important work? Not just because…
If I was super rich or in power I could gather and pay a group of average people to make dhcpcd financially driven, but I can’t see that working.
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Just in my personal opinion, things like a UBI move us towards that world. It wound allow people flexibility.
UBI + Government funded, free healthcare for everyone. It makes no sense that, with all the excess industrial supply that we have today, that we refuse to provide a basic minimum standard of living for all human beings.
Healthcare is still very expensive. There are diseases (including cancer) we could easily spend millions per patient on. Pulling out all the stops you could spend 10s of millions. But we really don't have that kind of societal overabundance, not yet.
So how much do you spend per patient? Are there certain diseases that you don't spend any public money on because the interventions are so expensive compared to success rates? It's really not a simple set of decisions to make, and those decisions do need to be made (or more to the point: agreed upon).
I believe open source work is amongst the greatest works of charities ever. It is just staggering the amount of work that goes building/maintainer open source. And I possibly wonder every week on who are these wonderful people creating/maintaining them. My heart goes to maintainer & family. Everybody in this forum needs to do a bit. Request everybody to donate generously via paypal mentioned in the link.
'Dhcpd will need a new maintainer' - doesn't tell the real story.
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but did the megacorp?
Unlikely. If you expect something different you’re missing the point of open source. Roy didn’t have to fix anything if he didn’t want to.
Compilers change, system libraries change, operating systems change, build systems change, language standards change and so on - and you, who just wanted to write, say, a DHCP server you or your organization needed at some point in life, tear yourself away from your day job, your family, your current pursuits and interests - which have likely not included fiddling with that old piece of code you wrote all those years ago - and bringing it in line what the current state of things.
Sisyphic work, which is usually rewarded mostly with complaints about why the thing is not up to date. "But they only just broke it! Do you expect me to spend my time also anticipating what infernal subtle ways the rug is going to get pulled from under me?" ... but you never tell people that.
You dutifully write your fix and re-publish (which can also be a bunch more work, since the platforms for publishing your FOSS project also change).
I salute you, Roy Marples!
(and I donated.)
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Just in my personal opinion, things like a UBI move us towards that world. It wound allow people flexibility.
The way I see it, we already have that world, with capitalism functioning as a filter. I worked my ass off to reach financial independence, now I'm dedicating the rest of my life towards helping other people. I've proven to be capable of using the system to a degree where I can do whatever I want, which allows me the freedom to help other people full time. It's not a perfect system, but I doubt UBI will be much bette…