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Careful, you’re saying the quiet part out loud; freedom is about profiting off the uncompensated work of others.
by c0pium 3y ago
Careful, you’re saying the quiet part out loud; freedom is about profiting off the uncompensated work of others.
- bbor 3y agoWell ultimately we all need to eat. If someone wants to be compensated in today’s society, they either need to join a gift-based sub-society (see: OSS foundations, NGOs in general) or sell something. Trust me, I totally agree that freedom of information should be a completely separate concern from resource allocation EDIT: I guess there’s a third option, “work another job and use OSS on your off hours”. Which feels… idk, disrespectful of the whole enterprise. OSS software development is important enough to deserve a wage IMO, to say the least
- satvikpendem 3y agoTo your last point, people pay what the market will bear. In this case, it's free, so don't be surprised that if you give something away for free that people, well, take it for free. Importance has nothing to do with it.