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This is a late stage cause. There are also many early stage causes.
"Shepherds, Merchants, and Credit: Some Observations on Lending Practices in Ur III Mesopotamia" https://www.jstor.org/stable/25165020 Late stage, huh?
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They pay you $500k/yr and up. Your open source project pays $50 on a good month. You have a house to maintain and family to feed. Why would you turn down such an offer? One thing I will caution those who do take the offer, the company will use you until you are no longer necessary and then throw you out (extinguish)
If you are in FOSS for the money, you are not in FOSS. Humanity could be sat around eating fruit and making art, instead we have mortgages and credit scores, because the venal systems corrupt and extortionate the progressive ones.
Just kidding, I hope everything goes well for him and I've really enjoyed following his work and reading his blog throughout the years.
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If you are in FOSS for the money, you are not in FOSS. Humanity could be sat around eating fruit and making art, instead we have mortgages and credit scores, because the venal systems corrupt and extortionate the progressive ones.
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"Shepherds, Merchants, and Credit: Some Observations on Lending Practices in Ur III Mesopotamia" https://www.jstor.org/stable/25165020 Late stage, huh?
How long do you think that humans have existed?
Looks like a tactical 'Embrace'. On top of that, surveillance capitalism is winning over the free software / open source developers as companies like Microsoft are buying out / hiring the majority of them. The free-software activists from the FSF and other free-software supporters have lost to the tech bros at these big tech companies that have hijacked 'open-source' and ran with it. They have failed in their mission…
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Christ almighty.