The foundation of modern software is cracking under the weight of burnout.
Pay the people! I pay every time its an option even when its just complimentary with no additional features.
I hope the Post Open license will be a part of the solution for this. Free commercial use of opensource should be disallowed.
Postopen probably won’t save it. There are ways to create even more copyleft license but that would mean create everything from scratch. Like compilers to everytool but no one will use that other than who wants complete copyleft works. Not even Linux can use that tools. But no one wants that lol
It could be part of the solution. We know we can’t go on just like we did. It’s not sustainable and change should be affected inside the opensource system as well as outside.
or we uninvent IP :p
Eh. We’ve always been unpaid. I guess now everyone is noticing because tech companies make billions off of our work.
Of course. Because when we’re all the little guys and helping each other, it’s fair. Now you have trillion dollar companies making demands of your project but donating zero dollars to it, and it feel much less fair.
We’re under no obligation to bend to the demands of trillion dollar companies.
Sure. But their deves still create lots of noise in open source projects and you don’t always know where they work.
True. That’s a good point.
I don’t believe this is a new concept. IIRC, the same claim was made around 20 years ago.
I suspect these things go through cycles like everything else.
We should definitely be paying attention when the developers of critical infrastructure begin to burn out.
