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This is silly. The vast majority of non-toy open source is written by corporations. I’ve made substantial open source contributions over the years but I’ve cons
by jahewson 6y ago
This is silly. The vast majority of non-toy open source is written by corporations. I’ve made substantial open source contributions over the years but I’ve consumed far more value than I ever created, all for free. Maybe you think I should be paying those corporations?
- thesource 6y agoAnd the vast majority of that is built on top of typically well maintained by a small number of people libraries and tooling. Let's not forget, much of the "non-toy open source by big corporations" is increasingly becoming Trojan horses either by sheer complexity making it all but impractical to run on anything other than Big C's cloud OR computational resource hungry allowing you to "toy" locally but again need Big C's cloud services