Paying people to work on open source is good
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Paying people to work on open source is good
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Re: Paying people to work on open source is good
#2Yes, please start by practicing what you preach. I actually donated 1% of my income to various open source projects I use.
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#4The premise of paid open source devs is fine and well, but every single one of these blogs devolves into delusional utopian nonsense from people who do not understand the staggering infrastructure and maintenance cost of the modern society they think should be some sort of guaranteed right. People, please learn and understand where your food comes from before writing this kind of garbage.
Re: Paying people to work on open source is good
#5See also Nadia Eghbal's (IMHO definitive) work on the economics and sociology of open source software, "Working In Public": https://press.stripe.com/working-in-public
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#6The premise of paid open source devs is fine and well, but every single one of these blogs devolves into delusional utopian nonsense from people who do not understand the staggering infrastructure and maintenance cost of the modern society they think should be some sort of guaranteed right. People, please learn and understand where your food comes from before writing this kind of garbage.
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#7A pro capitalist message from Jacobin? [Looks closer.] No.
I'd pay for an open source project that could filter & sort news by surprisingness-for-that-news-source. This opinion would rank high for jacobin.com. The story about Zuckerberg's preference for the Quest 3 over the AVP would disappear.
Re: Paying people to work on open source is good
#8The premise of paid open source devs is fine and well, but every single one of these blogs devolves into delusional utopian nonsense from people who do not understand the staggering infrastructure and maintenance cost of the modern society they think should be some sort of guaranteed right. People, please learn and understand where your food comes from before writing this kind of garbage.
FWIW, the author was at least thoughtful enough to include this disclaimer at the top:
> Warning: rant ahead. I’m writing from a place of frustration and not particularly interested in trying to moderate my tone. If you don’t want to hear me yell about open source for a while, please skip this one.
Re: Paying people to work on open source is good
#9The premise of paid open source devs is fine and well, but every single one of these blogs devolves into delusional utopian nonsense from people who do not understand the staggering infrastructure and maintenance cost of the modern society they think should be some sort of guaranteed right. People, please learn and understand where your food comes from before writing this kind of garbage.
TFA’s author is one of the co-creators of Django and a preeminent member of the Python community. I think it would be charitable to assume that he does, in fact, understand these things.
Re: Paying people to work on open source is good
#10A pro capitalist message from Jacobin? [Looks closer.] No. I'd pay for an open source project that could filter & sort news by surprisingness-for-that-news-source. This opinion would rank high for jacobin.com. The story about Zuckerberg's preference for the Quest 3 over the AVP would disappear.
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