I happen to believe in subsidised/affordable housing (I assume a UBI is what cybrox meant by not paying rent; also cracking down on housing-as-investments[1] so

I happen to believe in subsidised/affordable housing (I assume a UBI is what cybrox meant by not paying rent; also cracking down on housing-as-investments[1] sounds good to me, a layman, though apparently it wouldn't be enough[2] in our case, supply just needs to increase)—but I'm sure that other, less drastic societal changes would also be sufficient. For example, medium to large businesses could fund any open-source projects they make direct use of[3]. With the likes of OpenCollective[4][5] and GitHub Sponsors[6], the only roadblocks to adopting such a policy are corporate red tape and corporate greed. (And if it leads to smaller SBOMs, well, that's just a bonus as far as I'm concerned.) All that said, I was actually referring to individuals (who aren't necessarily developers) choosing which software to use. Over the last 20 years, we've all taken free downloads and sign-ups for granted, ignorant to that whole "if you're not paying, you're the product" thing, and a lot of us now have a $500+ supercomputer in our pockets which is to some extent owned by a tech giant and not its nominal owner. It's apparent that such centralised platforms have some intrinsic problems with regards to users' freedom. That's what I'm cautioning against—not the idea of selling your programming labour to a business, which is fine. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_property_bubble#Foreign_investment_in_residential_property https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_property_bubble#For... (This article is outdated. From a quick web search, it seems foreign real estate investment fell during the pandemic but has now picked up again.) [2]: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09-02/housing-property-australias-one-million-empty-homes/101396656 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09-02/housing-property-aust... (1M unoccupied houses in a country of 26M, ~120k of whom don't have secure housing...) [3]: https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/01/07/open-source-has-a-funding-problem/#h2-e80da1e18ef10 https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/01/07/open-source-has-a-fund... [4]: https://blog.opencollective.com/funds-for-open-source/ https://blog.opencollective.com/funds-for-open-source/ [5]: https://docs.opencollective.com/help/financial-contributors/organizations/sustainer-resources https://docs.opencollective.com/help/financial-contributors/... [6]: https://docs.github.com/en/sponsors/sponsoring-open-source-contributors/sponsoring-an-open-source-contributor-through-github#sponsoring-accounts-in-bulk https://docs.github.com/en/sponsors/sponsoring-open-source-c...