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In my opinion, the Hacktoberfest controversy last year points at the opposite being true. A computing student is not likely to understand the processes and etiq
by mkl95 5y ago
In my opinion, the Hacktoberfest controversy last year points at the opposite being true. A computing student is not likely to understand the processes and etiquette of the industry. Open Source projects are not toy projects, billions of $ depend on them running smoothly, and I don't think we should expect someone with no industry experience to have assimilated this fact.
Lately I have been observing an endemic problem in the Python world, this problem is that the demand for open source project maintainers is higher than the number of people that want and can maintain open source projects. This leads to cool pieces of software being abandoned after a few years. Maybe the focus should be on solving that problem.
- ozim 5y agoThis seems like another argument for "Private copying levy" but for open source developers that create useful libraries. So maintainers would be receiving some kind of stipend and not abandon projects. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_copying_levy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_copying_levy
- mkl95 5y agoI mean, Github Sponsors has been a thing for a while, but it doesn't seem to be too popular.
- ozim 5y agoMight be that because you still have to deal with the hassle of declaring income from that and loads of other small moving parts. With that levy you should get it from the government tax free and with minimal hassle. Oh wait just realized why it would not work...
- mkl95 5y agoSomething's clearly not working when extremely wealthy people pay less taxes than a little freelancer. But (in Europe) we are supposed to be grateful because startups across 27 countries are getting 4bn.