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Well, I think the article is explicitly going in the wrong direction, criticizing the basic idea of FOSS for causing these problems. The article seems to claim
by lambda 13y ago
Well, I think the article is explicitly going in the wrong direction, criticizing the basic idea of FOSS for causing these problems. The article seems to claim that because FOSS relies on labor that is unpaid upfront but rewarded by social capital, that it is inherently going to produce worse outcomes for less privileged groups. And I don't buy that.
So it's not just that I want more than the article gives (though I want that too; I would prefer that more potential solutions were presented), I'm also uncomfortable with the way it's framing the debate, indicating that this is an inherent failure in the FOSS model as opposed to a bug that should be fixed.