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As a capitalist, while I mostly agree with your complaints, you can't just dismiss the positives of FOSS has, especially on those of us that don't want to break
by kodablah 9y ago
As a capitalist, while I mostly agree with your complaints, you can't just dismiss the positives of FOSS has, especially on those of us that don't want to break the $ barrier to learn or get into things.
This sounds like starving-artist syndrome. At least I know all that code I give away I treat like art and do it for fun. Sure it might help people, and sure people might give themselves false expectations based on it, but that's neither the industry's nor the artist's fault. Your mistake, when lamenting pay scale, is comparing to highly skilled professions which I no longer consider trivial software development to be (but some is, sure).
- johnnyfaehell 9y ago> especially on those of us that don't want to break the $ barrier to learn or get into things. This could be solved with "developer licenses" whereas you can use it for free if you aren't using it for commercial reasons. I use such licenses on hobby projects in non-tech areas. But once I start using and making money, I also get some support. I want this on all dev tools. I suspect the quality of our tools and libraries would increase massive.
- kodablah 9y agoTo your original comment, they just won't get used while restrictionless alternatives exist. I for one don't want this on all dev tools, because I don't want to provide support on the things I give out for free (which may make it one of those "restrictionless alternatives" I mentioned). Rather, I go the complete other direction and make caveats like non-support and potential stagnation clear. I treat things differently though if it is code core to my business, but the ancillary code itself is not my business.