> No, that contract has completely been rewritten. It’s totally different now. If you write open source, you’re not gonna get a job Writing popular OSS softwar

> No, that contract has completely been rewritten. It’s totally different now. If you write open source, you’re not gonna get a job Writing popular OSS software (e.g. via github/gitlab) is still one of the best ways to attract the attention of employers. The bottleneck is not "writing software" in the abstract, it's support - which also includes maintenance and addressing custom feature requests. And there's nothing wrong with requesting that support be paid for, nor is this per se incompatible with open source licensing. So, I'd say that ESR's argument still succeeds. People just seem to want things from OSS (or even "open core") development models that would be far from feasible with plain-old proprietary development - such as economic returns in the billion dollar range. This is quite silly, in my view - if the "problem" with FLOSS is that we aren't getting that kind of money from it, that just means that there's not much to complain about.