Re:The open source paradox
by ricardobeat on Saturday October 03, 2020 @08:29AM
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If the project is unfulfilling, you drop it and move on to something you care about.
It seems a lot of this recent commotion around OSS is coming from people who feel they are entitled to get paid for doing unfulfilling work, but they want to keep prestige that comes from having their name attached to it. Open source as a job is a privilege, not a career move. Commercial software hasn't gone away.
It felt really nice to have a sphere of software development not tied directly to capitalism for once, but welp, too late now. I guess that's the idealistic part.
Re:The open source paradox
by fierarul on Saturday October 03, 2020 @08:43AM
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Which is why I said stopping open source work is a valid option. It's quite hard to untangle yourself from that and sometime it seems like money would help.
It seems a lot of this recent commotion around OSS is coming from people who feel they are entitled to get paid for doing unfulfilling work, but they want to keep prestige that comes from having their name attached to it. Open source as a job is a privilege, not a career move. Commercial software hasn't gone away.
It felt really nice to have a sphere of software development not tied directly to capitalism for once, but welp, too late now. I guess that's the idealistic part.