That tweet listed in that article ... gah. So bad so full of stupid. The moron who wrote it is a GOOG programmer who thinks that 300k is what programmers make.

That tweet listed in that article ... gah. So bad so full of stupid. The moron who wrote it is a GOOG programmer who thinks that 300k is what programmers make. That is a tech-bro who lives in a place of privilege. And from the comment I am guessing not a programmer? Or very young and not so mature. Open source is not broken. Open source has always been a programmer scratching their own itch. If other people have the same itch and the code is used in more places... and so on until a larger company uses it. And then god help that company they are evil for exploiting the guy at the bottom? Yeah nope. Would it be great if everyone did pay that dude for his open source library? Yes it would. Figuring out how to pay people all the way down the open source stack would be an incredibly hard problem. You could pay the one guy who started the project but what about all the other people who have worked on it? I mean if I contributed even 1 line of code to log4j I would like a cut of the 300k the GOOG guy is going to donate.