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Wouldn't it be better if they could instead hire someone that adds actual value as one of their early employees rather than someone they need to fulfill some bu
by cinntaile 3y ago
Wouldn't it be better if they could instead hire someone that adds actual value as one of their early employees rather than someone they need to fulfill some bureaucratic requirement?
- lijok 3y agoBetter for whom?
- cinntaile 3y agoBoth for society and the company. You want more small companies to succeed in your society, they are the engine of growth after all. One way to help out is by reducing their bureaucratic burden. This is all well researched and well documented.
- AnthonyMouse 3y agoCustomers who want resources spent on product improvements, or lower prices, rather than deadweight economic losses to regulatory overhead.
- lijok 3y agoHow would those same customers feel when the resources are spent on scamming them instead? That's why we have regulation in the first place
- AnthonyMouse 3y ago"Resources spent on scamming them instead" would be something like locking the customer out of doing their own firmware updates or refusing to publish documentation or source code in their possession for out-of-support products because it enables planned obsolescence. But regulations prohibiting such practices wouldn't see many objections from open source developers because they would be trivially satisfied by publishing the source code under widely used existing licenses. Whereas providing you with every ability to do something yourself, or to pay any third party to do it for you, is not a scam just because they're not offering to do it for you without pay.
- lijok 3y ago> "Resources spent on scamming them instead" would be something like locking the customer out of doing their own firmware updates or refusing to publish documentation or source code in their possession for out-of-support products because it enables planned obsolescence. But regulations prohibiting such practices wouldn't see many objections from open source developers because they would be trivially satisfied by publishing the source code under widely used existing licenses. That's definitely a problem which should be fixed and is indeed currently being fixed by the EU via regulation.
- AnthonyMouse 3y agoDon't fall into the trap where "regulation" is treated as a monolithic thing which is either good or bad as a whole. It's the most motte and bailey thing in the world. Anyone can justify the government in prohibiting leaded gasoline, that doesn't tell you whether any unrelated proposal is any good. Many, many of them legitimately are not.