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Until someone races to the bottom to do 12 months of availability.
by charcircuit 5mo ago
Until someone races to the bottom to do 12 months of availability.
- t-writescode 5mo agoRaces to the bottom to … do work exclusively for free and not make any money out of the hopes that they become the most popular OSS toolkit, with an end goal of … what?
- codercowmoo 5mo agobait and switch
- fragmede 4mo agoXz
- embedding-shape 5mo ago> at they become the most popular OSS toolkit, with an end goal of … what? Look at how any "FOSS + VC + for-profit" company in the last 5-10 years worked out, and you'll see the playbook.
- jarym 5mo agoEnd goal of complaining that no one pays for their efforts.
- altairprime 5mo agoValidation, often. Stars and installs make self-worth integer go up, etc. Greed, sometimes. Gotta get those usercounts high to get acquihired / to sell out / to flip on the paid subs for formerly free features. I can’t remember the word for “prosocial through lowering cost to zero” is but sometimes that too.
- simonask 5mo agoThis works for a while. Then you - the programmer - grow up. Wise customers know this.
- saulpw 5mo agoBut a programmer is born every minute.
- altairprime 4mo agoNot so much these days.
- RetroTechie 5mo ago> I can’t remember the word for “prosocial through lowering cost to zero” is but sometimes that too. Wiktionary: Benevolent, altruistic, unselfish, beneficent, philanthropic, selfless
- altairprime 5mo agoPhilanthropic! Thanks.
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- throwaw12 5mo agothen it is up to community to fork the project if they find it valuable and can convince people migrating to their fork. many engineers actually work that way, right? We are employed for 12 months and give our availability fully to the company and we get salary for it, why isn't it allowed to others?
- londons_explore 5mo agoA fork of a project that does security patches only is an interesting idea... Since then a diff of the two projects will be a perfect list of security issues and will make designing an attack rather easy...
- bluGill 5mo agoOnly until the next feature lands in upstream, likely accompanied by some refactoring.
- thunderbong 5mo agoPlease go ahead and fork curl
- latexr 5mo agoThat’s just the status quo.
- nchmy 5mo agoAh yes, people will just be clamoring to use hURL
- nkrisc 5mo agoA race to the bottom of… unpaid work that eliminates the paid work? Can you elaborate?
- DaiPlusPlus 5mo agoAI-slop PRs automerged in response to AI slop bug reports.
- pydry 5mo agoCoz just about everyone wants to be that one guy in Nebraska thanklessly maintaining this bit of digital infrastructure, apparently? Yeah me neither. I think the only thing that would convince people to move away from curl at this point would be if curl had a heartbleed level vulnerability and failed to fix it quickly.
- zaphirplane 5mo agoWe don’t need to speculate do we, there are tons of real non company run OSS projects Now I personally wish lawyers and plumbers also got into the free work thing but here we are
- mc32 5mo agoPlumbers are realistic and don’t live on ideals. They set their rates and set their hours. Lawyers; well if if only people behaved we could have nice things in life, but here we are with people trying to screw each other and misbehave… Digital assets or work are a bit different in that making a second copy is trivial. It’d be different if every computer in the world were bespoke and needed its own bespoke software. So that makes OSS a viable option for those who can but we also can’t expect everyone to default OSS. We can default to asking that the service and prices be reasonable though.
- ralferoo 5mo agoIsn't that what we have already?