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I hope Open Source maintainers and the big companies get the message -- they need to change the financial outlook of open source maintaining.
by markus_zhang 3y ago
I hope Open Source maintainers and the big companies get the message -- they need to change the financial outlook of open source maintaining.
- thiht 3y agoHow would it have changed anything in this specific case?
- markus_zhang 3y agoThis might solve the original author's issues, AND might also attract other people to do the job. The more people, the more eyes. It's definitely not a silver bullet, but I would be surprised that OSS maintainers are fine with the current financial arrangement, or lack of it.
- slowmovintarget 3y agoMoney itself doesn't necessarily cure mental health issues. I'm mean it usually doesn't hurt, but it's not like you can blend cash up into a smoothy and cure depression. (Yes, that's a South Park reference.)
- account42 3y agoLack of money on the other hand can both cause mental issues and make dealing with them harder if not impossible.
- bongodongobob 3y agoI think the message would more likely be "don't use open source and pay for closed source" than "give money to open source and cross your fingers that it does something".
- markus_zhang 3y agoEither way, it gives more jobs and $$$ to software developers in general. I'm fine with both :) Just imagine how many more jobs will be created if every large company decides to roll their own stuffs. A lot are actually doing this, but not enough.
- bongodongobob 3y agoThat just sounds like the broken window fallacy then. "It's good we have broken windows so the window makers have jobs".
- markus_zhang 3y agoSince that already happened, let's drink from the half-full bottle.
- pkulak 3y agoIt absolutely is. But we're all window makers, so our perspective is slightly different from general econ. ;)
- sargun 3y agoTo be fair, you also need software engineers to break the windows. It is in our best interest to break the windows.
- treyd 3y agoThat is a tremendous amount of duplicated effort and it would be nice to be able to go and do something else with our skills and lives.
- rmbyrro 3y agoYou should have more discretion with those ideas or disclose irony clearly, which I hope is the case here.
- jerf 3y ago
- mardifoufs 3y agoThe original xz maintainer stated that he delegated maintenance due to (then) current mental illness issues he was facing, not because of finances.
- account42 3y agoHe mentioned mental illness and other issues. Those other issues could very well be financial. Financial issues also affect mental health.