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If you want guaranteed compensation for your work, work for a company or require payment for your software. Releasing it as free software and then complaining when you don't get the donations you wanted is just being entitled.
Open source users are the welfare queens of our times. As long as open source software exists, these lazy degenerates with no skin in the game will feel entitled to keep demanding more and more. Open source software needs to die.
> The "welfare queen" stereotype is driven by the false and racist beliefs that places the blame of the circumstances of poor black single mothers as the result of their own individual issues, bringing forward racial tropes such as their promiscuity, lack of structure and morals, and avoidance of work. [0]
This is a point I've been pondering about recently, especially since the attacks against Free Software and RMS. I've been convinced of the inherent good that openly available software is, both for users and developers, and for society at large. I want to continue contributing to the common goods. But I am also fully aware that Google, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, Tiktok, and all other platforms exploiting…
I doubt there are many companies that this is true for, if any
yes, log4j is good, but there's a dozen other logging libraries for Java that do 99% of what people will use log4j for
and the same is true for Alpine
> I simply do not want to be in a situation where my software that I develop as a passion project on the side is holding people's companies together. People love to hate on Richard Stallman but he was really clear about the motivation for Free Software (which is not the same as Open Source but shares some tenets). What companies do with the source is their thing. They get all of the benefits and all of the responsibi…
Except you can't because hundreds of thousands of project have "log4j" in their dependency list not "wyldfire-fixed-log4j". If log4j broke and there was no maintainer, a fork would not fix things.
That's on them. They can migrate to wyldfire-fixed-log4j if they want, or to whatever other fork they want, or they can keep using the old busted shit. It's up to them, there's no problem here.
I don’t want the maintainers to work for free. But I don’t know if we at large would benefit from the alternative.
Someone should write a package that goes through your existing codebase to see which open source projects you make the most use of (however that is measured). Then a company could run it once a year, say around tax write off time, and build a list to donate to I would have happily given to log4j, but I didn't know that they were in need. Someone has to make it easy to keep track of this because it's never going to be…
Stuff like that already exists. Companies barely donate. In my opinion, more packages should require licensing fees from companies.
Open source isn't broken. The software will continue to get built regardless of funding levels, clearly. But when vulnerabilities like this are found, no one -- especially corporate users -- gets to complain. Any complainers should be immediately told to fund the software they use, or shut their entitled mouths. Open source is fine. The culture of companies -- nearly all of them, including the one I work for -- that…
> If log4j2 is responsible for your company's success, you have a moral obligation to donate to the person who creates this library thanklessly. I doubt there are many companies that this is true for, if any yes, log4j is good, but there's a dozen other logging libraries for Java that do 99% of what people will use log4j for and the same is true for Alpine
This is false. Free software is given away by those who produce it. When you receive a gift, no moral or ethical obligation is created.
This idea that you can do things with free software that are contrary to the spirit (such as create a profitable company around it and not pay the original author) is a false one. It is free as in beer, too.
You don't owe anyone anything when you receive a gift freely given.