> 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

> 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.