> our model of society is not compatible with open source I’d say evidence is to the contrary. This message wouldn’t be possible without open source working o

> our model of society is not compatible with open source I’d say evidence is to the contrary. This message wouldn’t be possible without open source working on multiple devices at every layer of the network. I think the problem of funding open source well, that is a different problem and has a lot of the same problems getting anything funded does. Not every piece of code can have an enterprise built around it, and that means there will be no one to even look at bugs. Finally, let’s talk about volunteering. Most often volunteering is doing something that doesn’t get cash budgeted towards it. You go in doing something necessary but unbudgeted because you want to… and with no reward other than knowing you made something work. Maybe you even give up something you could be doing with time instead of volunteering. Manning the directions kiosk at the hospital, picking up garbage in a neighborhood, nailing the roof onto a house the owner can’t afford to buy, putting letters in envelopes, and answering the phone at a fundraiser are all examples of this. You know what you are getting in to and you know what you are getting paid. No injustice in it at all. And for a lot of people it’s the most important thing they do.