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You've described most of open source software development and yet people still write the code because they need the code and want to share the code with others
by justinjlynn 3y ago
You've described most of open source software development and yet people still write the code because they need the code and want to share the code with others because others shared with them. This isn't the problem you think it is. The problem is that most of the web's current funding model is broken and user hostile. This isn't a problem with semantic data or software development this is a problem with the capitalist model of post-scarcity information production, distribution, and control. That's what needs to change if we're to benefit in proportion to what we contribute instead of those who appropriate and exploit the most benefiting the most. Let the web, as it exists now, break - it hasn't been ours for a long time.
- neilv 3y agoI'd like to have a better model in place, before the current one breaks.
- justinjlynn 3y agoIf necessity is the mother of invention then revolution is the father.
- ben_w 3y ago"An Outside Context Problem was the sort of thing most civilisations encountered just once, and which they tended to encounter rather in the same way a sentence encountered a full stop." — Iain M. Banks, Excession Despite being fictional, it seems at least as correct as your saying. Also applies to corporations.
- justinjlynn 3y agoIt is and very much does. Fortunately, there is plausibly little that qualifies as a true outside context problem these days. Authors of fiction, and especially of science fiction, are mostly to thank for that.