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This is a good example of Diffusion of Responsibility. Everybody thinks somebody else should help, so nobody does.
by brightball 9mo ago
This is a good example of Diffusion of Responsibility.
Everybody thinks somebody else should help, so nobody does.
- lenerdenator 9mo agoI don't think they even see it as their responsibility, more, "If he wanted money, he should have charged for his software".
- JuniperMesos 9mo agoIf he actually did charge money someone else would've written an implementation of sudo to solve their own needs and avoid the overhead of transacting with a random developer.
- snvzz 9mo agoAnd then "If he wanted money, he should have charged for his software" would apply to that someone.
- Grimblewald 9mo agoAnd in such a system, before long, we have an ecosystem that resembles the venereal disease masequaraing as an addon store we see in wordpress.
- _fizz_buzz_ 9mo ago"Your 3 months sudo trial is expiring. Would you like to sign up for sudo-pro (best for hobbiest and small teams), sudo-business (up to 100 users) or sudo-enterprise (reach out for a quote)"
- lenerdenator 9mo agoNightmarish, isn't it? But that's how the higher-ups at places like IBM and Oracle see the world. And these people are free to roam the streets unfettered. Hardly seems right.
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- shimman 9mo agoSeriously, just put a VAT on digital services to fund a system that pays out grants to individuals to help maintain open source software. It should be obvious by now that corporations will rat fuck the commons for monetary gain and there is a serious need for democratic initiatives to put technology back into the hands of the people.
- TonyStr 9mo agoI would like to live in this utopia where free software is funded by the state. This seems impossible to get implemented in our world though.
- kortilla 9mo agoBut how would that work? There isn’t unlimited money so who decides what software to support with state money and which developers? I don’t have trust in a bureaucracy to decide which developers should get paid to work on sudo. Just look at a the sudo-rs debacle and that’s without money involved.
- shimman 9mo agoYou have a failure of imagination if this is what you think, luckily in politics we don't have to listen to people like you and instead those with an actual vision of a better future.
- Antibabelic 9mo agoThe EU does fund a lot of open source software.
- kasey_junk 9mo agoSo does the US. In fact they did for this software.
- kergonath 9mo agoSeveral states fund open science, and a couple of them actually do fund open source projects. Germany has its sovereign tech agency for this; France has publicly-funded research agencies that work on a lot of open source stuff, and there are others. There are EU initiatives as well. It’s not perfect, but it is already something that is being done.
- AmbroseBierce 9mo agoI mean, he should just put a message when you run sudo the first time asking for funding if he wants it that bad, that should speed things up.
- mnau 9mo agoIt would be removed by distros. XScreensaver had a notice when user ran old version and Debian removed it.
- selfmodruntime 9mo agoGoogle made 10^7 as much money as I did last year. Yea, I don't think it's as simple as you make it seem.
- kllrnohj 9mo agoGoogle sponsors a lot of open source work: https://opensource.google/organizations-we-support https://opensource.google/organizations-we-support I wonder if sudo would be better off joining one of those open source foundations instead of staying solo. It's too small to justify a meaningful amount of contribution to these companies, at which point the bureaucratic overhead of dealing with it probably kills the motivation
- habitable5 9mo agoThis is the current list but from a cursory look it lacks GSoC which has been a significant source of new contributors since forever.