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Exactly, we will end up with a handful of 'attention monopolists' who will just take people's best works and reap 100% of profits by acting as centralized publi
by jongjong 4y ago
Exactly, we will end up with a handful of 'attention monopolists' who will just take people's best works and reap 100% of profits by acting as centralized publishers and gatekeepers for the world's content... Kind of like what we have in the software industry with open source.
- WalterBright 4y agoWhat gatekeepers are there with open source? I don't recall asking anybody for permission to develop the D programming language and give it away for free.
- jongjong 4y agoSure, anyone can create a project, but what's the point if nobody will hear about it and nobody will use it regardless of how good it is? This is the reality for many projects; they may have added massive value but we don't know that they exist. It doesn't make sense to compare modern open source projects with projects from a previous era. More new open source projects are created each day than used to be created each year but we hardly ever hear about any of these new projects. We only hear about corporate sponsored 'open source' projects... Which, for the most part are terrible; people would realize how terrible they are if only they could see what else is out there, but they don't. Even with my skeptical mindset (actively trying to find indie/underdog projects), I only know about a tiny fraction of open source projects which would interest me (if I could know about their existence). I can't even dream of using indie projects during my day job... Every single employer has been brainwashed into using only 'approved' big-tech OSS projects and this effect is getting worse each year.