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What they would prefer is that you continue to offer up your unpaid labor that they can then use to build fortunes upon. It is no accident that businesses are h
by EarlKing 4y ago
What they would prefer is that you continue to offer up your unpaid labor that they can then use to build fortunes upon. It is no accident that businesses are happy to encourage "open source" so long as that means "make us stuff we can use to make money with without paying you a dime". "Open source" has never meant you couldn't charge for your work or otherwise impose a noncommercial use restriction on it, though the OSI and its pro-corporate partisans have gone to great lengths to claim otherwise (much like they like to pretend the invented the term and/or the concept).
At the end of the day I don't work for free, and I'm pretty sure you don't either, so if you want to get paid for what you do then make them pay you. The End. Full stop. HAND. TYVFM. FOAD. Etc. Ad nauseum. Anyone who says otherwise should not be engaged but simply told to get lost... because if they want Free Shit then they know where to find it.
- kiba 4y agoOpen source is never about you working for free or not being able to charge money for shit.
- itrollpussies 4y agoI see OSI version of open source as forced labor, the best I can do is open source my work, meaning make the source code open source, people can use it for free but as soon as you want to commercialize my work, you gotta pay. If you anyone is about to say that isn't open source, well, there is nothing you can do about it, sorry
- EarlKing 4y agoThe OSI thinks otherwise: > 6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor > The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research. -- Source: https://opensource.org/osd https://opensource.org/osd They've been pushing this line for decades.