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GitHub should charge everyone $1 more per month to fund open source

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Re: GitHub should charge everyone $1 more per month to fund open source

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UBI is an idea from another money-centric ideology, namely “libertarianism”. It’s not an idea for fostering creativity. It’s an idea for dealing with less employable dependents of society, while the true dependents (parasitic capitalists) take the real spoils of industrialized productivity.

Doesn't UBI come from taxes? I can't reconcile the idea of welfare for everyone resonating very well with any of the libertarians I know. Personal charity, sure, absolutely, but not government controlled payouts to people, even if that includes everyone. They would probably consider it better than the current welfare system with all it's bureaucracy, but that's as positive a response as I can expect. Most libertarian…

See Milton Friedman. Or Friedrich Hayek if Friedman isn’t crazy enough.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_advocates_of_universal...

Re: GitHub should charge everyone $1 more per month to fund open source

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I think you've missed the point again, it's more like this: 1. Work for free making open source code and giving it away for free. 2. Giant corporations take all my code without giving me anything. 3. Work for free making open source code and giving it away for free. If you can't go to step 3, then you are doing it wrong and need to change step 1 from "giving it away for free" to something like "giving it away for fre…

Although I agree with your overall point, there is a middle ground here: (commercially) non-free but open source software. I believe that's where the biggest disagreement ITT lies. There are currently good ways to do FOSS, proprietary closed-source and free closed-source software development. But if the OSS is worth charging for (commercial) use, devs are left with asking for donations, SaaS or "pay me to work on thi…

I'm sorry, but in my mind, open source and commercial don't mix. What would a license for that even look like?

I'm not saying going commercial is bad, go for it. I'm just saying that when we are talking open source, we are not talking money, that's all. Money is just one of many things in life, sure it's important, but not by itself.

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