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Recent Discussion on Unfairness in FLOSS Economics
- brudgers 11y agoReferenced Essay, How I Stumbled on the Internet's Biggest Blind Spot: https://medium.com/@nayafia/how-i-stumbled-upon-the-internet-s-biggest-blind-spot-b9aa23618c58#.rvkhtamho https://medium.com/@nayafia/how-i-stumbled-upon-the-internet...
- stegosaurus 11y ago'Unfairness' is an incorrect term and brings to mind whining. It is inefficient. It is sub-optimal, for the progress of humanity, that good, motivated developers have to spend most of their time (or frankly, any time) on capitalist nonsense. Work on a supermarket checkout, feed a few people, make a few pounds. Fix a big in the linux kernel, millions will use it, you get zero. Totally and utterly bonkers.
- yuhong 11y agoFrom https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/comp.sys.mac.announce/vTmp-bIZGLs/M5I9Ia2YhGkJ https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/comp.sys.mac.announce/... : "Our previous policy of distributing system software via user groups and electronic bulletin boards reached only a small percentage of our customer base while often discouraging traditional software resellers from stocking and promoting new releases of system software." I wonder why?