Open Source never made sense (to me. I'm a Free Software partisan.) > but y'all, capitalism is winning, and Open Source isn't changing that fact by an appreci

Open Source never made sense (to me. I'm a Free Software partisan.) > but y'all, capitalism is winning, and Open Source isn't changing that fact by an appreciable margin. Open Source was a capitulation to capitalism. That's what differentiates it from the Free Software movement. The whole point was to woo business interests. > you have somehow fucked up because you now have a second job. A second job that doesn't pay, That's a classic case of "Don't do that." Charge people money to write and maintain software, of course! That is valuable economic activity. Don't charge people to copy software that is already written. That is regressive and holds back human progress and economic wealth creation. The entire point of computers and software is that it makes wealth easy to duplicate! You write a machine and then everyone can use it for free (technically there is a cost but it's so incredibly tiny that it's negligible.) We should take advantage of this to reconfigure the economic system to take care of everybody (and the global ecology) and live happily ever after.