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I generally try to stay away from responding to these posts but it's starting to feel like it's an astroturf concern trolling strategy. I'm not sure I've prope
by abetusk 2y ago
I generally try to stay away from responding to these posts but it's starting to feel like it's an astroturf concern trolling strategy.
I'm not sure I've properly digested the article but, just from a cursory look, it doesn't even mention the exponentially decreasing costs of compute. I'm not sure my model is correct by I suspect the main driving factor of why FOSS exists and is successful is that the tax imposed by current copyright/IP laws is too usury and FOSS provides a mechanism to circumvent it and provide/capture the value from the dropping costs of compute.
Is the FOSS surplus evaporating? Maybe, but my default position is no. I'd be willing to change that position if some evidence were provided. The article provides none.
Articles like "Is the Open Source Bubble about to Burst?" are click-baity titles that seem on the razors edge of bad faith. The author of that article claims to be a FOSS advocate so I don't know.
Maybe I'm reading too much into things and this is really fallout from some EU politics I'm not fully looped into.