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- _pmf_ 6y ago> Yet, we continue to pay for our daily basics; food, water, electric…Yet we’ve decided for some insane reason that all this programming work the world’s richest companies rely on is worth absolutely nothing. Stop making stuff open source, and there will be more paid jobs, and the paid jobs that exist will be valued more because they are no longer just "plumbing together open source components". Easy as that. Will the software be higher quality? No. But that does not seem to be a concern anyway.
- marcus_holmes 6y agoI realise what is happening. I realise there are thousands of people whose work contributed to being able to do this. I also realise that some of those people are getting pissed off and annoyed that their contribution isn't being recognised (see TFA for details). And those people have the ability to "inject code that steals secrets" into my code base and cause massive headaches for me. Which is why I'm extremely careful which dependencies I use, and don't use dependencies whenever possible.
- josuepeq 6y agoI wonder, how much shareholder value FOSS, either in a package manager or otherwise, has added to MFAANG and other technology companies over the years? A few years ago, someone did break a package that many companies cloned and integrated... the internet nearly broke... My guess; a disruption in services is one thing that’s not already “priced in” to the stock market.
- BlueTemplar 6y agoWell, Microsoft didn't spend $8G on Github out of the goodness of their hearts... As Neal Stephenson said two decades ago : it's not like Microsoft controls developer's means of production and distribution ! (/s now)