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There are some initiatives to help change that: https://osspledge.com https://osspledge.com

• blitzar 1y ago
  Once there are as many private jets available for open source devs as there are for google employees then we are making progress.
  • ezekg 1y ago
    I think that's the wrong way to frame it. OSS is not meant to make you rich, and expecting that is going to bring more pain than joy. However, I do think businesses should use their success to fund their dependencies in a way that makes sense for them.
    • pessimizer 1y ago
      > businesses should use their success to fund their dependencies in a way that makes sense for them. They already do, and always have. It doesn't make any sense to most of them to fund their OSS dependencies at all, because they're available for free. They should do more than what makes sense for them, and they should have to pay professional consequences if they don't. Programmers should have enough unity to bring pressure against companies that make a lot of money from software they don't pay for. Or rather, should have had, because LLMs have changed anything.