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In my country volunteering at for profit organisation is illegal. Which this essentially becomes if you allow for profit corporations to use the open source sof
by varispeed 4y ago
In my country volunteering at for profit organisation is illegal. Which this essentially becomes if you allow for profit corporations to use the open source software without remuneration.
That being said, if you contribute to an open source dual licensed project, you should be getting a share of the revenue coming from corporations paying for the license.
Your idea of free software is similar to that in the music industry, where corporations want to pay for the content in "exposure".
Another thing - that comes back to my first point - is that if we allow open source contributors to not be compensated, when their projects are being used commercially, we are creating inequality, where only privileged people who can afford to commit their time for free contribute to these projects, get recognition and then subsequently may be looking at getting better jobs than those who cannot afford to contribute, because they come from poor background and need to be in paid work in order to live.
In my country, when unpaid internships were legal, they were usually taken by white kids from privileged middle class families, who could pay for their food and accommodation. They were getting experience and better start in life than their poor peers.
Your idea of open source enforces inequality and is wrong!
- imtringued 4y agoWow, so you're saying that the government will send interns to court and possibly jail?
- varispeed 4y agoNo. But they can send their company they volunteer at, mainly to remunerate the interns (at least minimum wage) and probably a fine.