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Big corps (like HashiCorp) make their margins on SWE and FOSS' backs - do you owe them the same ire as landlords?

by intelVISA 4y ago

x-complexity 4y ago
> Big corps (like HashiCorp) make their margins on SWE and FOSS' backs - do you owe them the same ire as landlords? There is a false equivalency made here, in that it assumes that the debate regarding labor & the debate regarding capital are interchangeable. Landlords (& possibly account managers like "Alex") derive their compensation from the maintenance & management of the capital's safety & utility: The quality of said capital (whether cash or real estate) should remain constant if they did their job. The debate enters in when the capital owners/managers put in little documented effort & receive large compensations in response. For Software Corps, their compensations are derived from difference between the value created from the creative, technical, & outreach labor put in from their SWEs, designers, marketers, etc., and the cost of compensating that labor + maintaining the necessary equipment to make the labor usable. For this, the debate enters in on how much they should be compensated for the labor put in. The two debates are not strictly equal.
csomar 4y ago
HashiCorp is one of the most Open Source friendly companies out there. Most of their stack is open sourced, open, and very fairly licensed. I'd say HashiCorp is an exemplar.
dilyevsky 4y ago
> Big corps (like HashiCorp) make their margins on SWE and FOSS' backs You’ve managed to be simultaneously very right and so wrong
the_gipsy 4y ago
OSS contributors compare to some bank middle manager in what way?
thwayunion 4y ago
> Big corps (like HashiCorp) make their margins on SWE and FOSS' backs - do you owe them the same ire as landlords? I don't have much respect for people who make their living off of capital rather than labor.

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Big corps (like HashiCorp) make their margins on SWE and FOSS' backs - do you owe them the same ire as landlords?

by intelVISA 4y ago

Big corps (like HashiCorp) make their margins on SWE and FOSS' backs - do you owe them the same ire as landlords?

x-complexity 4y ago
> Big corps (like HashiCorp) make their margins on SWE and FOSS' backs - do you owe them the same ire as landlords? There is a false equivalency made here, in that it assumes that the debate regarding labor & the debate regarding capital are interchangeable. Landlords (& possibly account managers like "Alex") derive their compensation from the maintenance & management of the capital's safety & utility: The quality of said capital (whether cash or real estate) should remain constant if they did their job. The debate enters in when the capital owners/managers put in little documented effort & receive large compensations in response. For Software Corps, their compensations are derived from difference between the value created from the creative, technical, & outreach labor put in from their SWEs, designers, marketers, etc., and the cost of compensating that labor + maintaining the necessary equipment to make the labor usable. For this, the debate enters in on how much they should be compensated for the labor put in. The two debates are not strictly equal.
csomar 4y ago
HashiCorp is one of the most Open Source friendly companies out there. Most of their stack is open sourced, open, and very fairly licensed. I'd say HashiCorp is an exemplar.
dilyevsky 4y ago
> Big corps (like HashiCorp) make their margins on SWE and FOSS' backs You’ve managed to be simultaneously very right and so wrong
the_gipsy 4y ago
OSS contributors compare to some bank middle manager in what way?
thwayunion 4y ago
> Big corps (like HashiCorp) make their margins on SWE and FOSS' backs - do you owe them the same ire as landlords? I don't have much respect for people who make their living off of capital rather than labor.