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It’s a bitter monkey paw irony: when you ask FOSS advocates how developers would be paid in a fully FOSS world where piracy cannot exist because all software is
by MontyCarloHall 1y ago
It’s a bitter monkey paw irony: when you ask FOSS advocates how developers would be paid in a fully FOSS world where piracy cannot exist because all software is free, the answer is often “service contracts.”
The monkey paw curls. Now we live in a world where software is nothing but service contracts and more closed than ever.
- deadbabe 1y agoThere is still open source software, and it is still as free as ever.
- pjmlp 1y agoAnd routinely gets license changed as the authors discover they actually need to make money in a capitalist world.
- deadbabe 1y agoFOSS is a bad way to make money, but it is a great way for independently wealthy developers to get clout.
- timka 1y agoIt's the Westphalian system which includes not only (protestant) capitalism, but also scientific positivism, liberal humanism and everything else. Which we now call (post-/meta-)modern. There's nothing we can do about all that and for practical reasons we just accept the world as is and tend to forget/ignore the reasons it is so. But for retaining cognitive sovereignty if think it's good to remember that.
- fidotron 1y ago> Now we live in a world where software is nothing but service contracts and more closed than ever. Indeed, and that software ends up optimized for service contract billing potential over usability.