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"Some are seeing that corporations are the ones making all the money on the back of open source software. " That is often true, but i guess i try to be pragmat
by DannyBee 8y ago
"Some are seeing that corporations are the ones making all the money on the back of open source software. "
That is often true, but i guess i try to be pragmatic. I did not create the corporation or do all of that work to make that happen. Maybe people think this is easy, but it's not. it is a lot of work in most cases.
I also get paid plenty. Why should i care that someone else is getting paid more?
None of this was ever about making significant amounts of money, and open source is almost certainly a bad model to achieve that for real. It tends to create lots of value and attempts to distribute that value usually destroy it.
I may be weird about this though. I have plenty of friends who have made hundreds of millions or billions building those corporations.
I chose not to do that, and instead be happy with what i've got (and i've got plenty) and value different things.
- ehnto 8y agoIt's not really an issue to me that someone else is making money, I understand I could come off as a budding capitalist who's mad they are missing out on their cut. But that's not the case. I have always felt OSS was an embodiment of human generosity, and it just seems that it's been commandeered by commercial interests. Passionate devs are happy to keep working on it anyway, because it's fun. Their efforts might have been better spent on more altruistic OSS projects, but that's not my decision to make, and I don't exactly lead by example.