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Kind of like “follow your passions”, “open source” is a great way for software developers to work at way below the market rate to provide provide great value to
by RcouF1uZ4gsC 7y ago
Kind of like “follow your passions”, “open source” is a great way for software developers to work at way below the market rate to provide provide great value to corporations for very cheap. Through github stars and “recognition” the corporate world has managed to gamify software development and get enthusiastic developers to develop and give away literally billions in software value.
No wonder the MBA’s view software developers as suckers.
Read through HN, and you see maintainers of hugely popular open source software that probably has saved corporations billions of dollars, burned out, mentally exhausted, living in poverty and begging for donations.
- CypherSnyper 7y agoSo what would your view be? Having developers make everything proprietary so that the world's computing infrastructure would collapse? I find very doubtful your claim that corporations are "gamifying" or exploiting software developers in any way. It is fallacious to label corporations as inherently trying to steal from developers, or the developers as suckers. Rather, open source allows for the symbiosis of the two that creates billions in added value for everybody. Nobody loses.