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If anyone is parasitic, it's people selling their software. They're all using a lot of free libraries and tooling to actually produce working software. While I
by y4mi 7y ago
If anyone is parasitic, it's people selling their software. They're all using a lot of free libraries and tooling to actually produce working software.
While I do agree that people deserve to be paid for their work, blaming others producing a superior product for free is not a sane worldview.
You should donate to free software, tooling etc you use and pay their developers a decent wage like that.
And if you're a maintainer for a free software, start to charge corporations for support. That's the only way you can convince them to part with their money.
- theredbox 7y agoPeople are not producing superior products for free out of their good will. And these are often not so superior either. It is a simple balancing game of a good enough tool vs a good enough vendor lock-in. Donations do not work and developers should not be forced to beg. FOSS is a broken model for all of us. At the end of the day you are feeding the behemoths one way or another.
- sokoloff 7y agoIn many cases, they are doing it out of good will. Emacs, gcc, countless languages and frameworks, most of the npm ecosystem, etc all have a substantial portion of “because it’s good for the community and now that it’s written, sharing it costs me little additional”.
- cwyers 7y agoThat only works for products with a B2B business model possible. That's not all products. And it's hard to build something with a "sane" business model when there's a lot of VC-funded products that are acting as loss leaders to suck the oxygen out of the room so they can develop a monopoly in a space.