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Re:Infrastructure bill cryptocurrency surveillance provision... by tluyben2 on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @12:06PM (#28050895)
As OSS dev this very often not true for instance: there is a lot of OSS having a positive effect on a huge amount of people and yet the authors scraping by. Paying for OSS should be a tax write off aka charity. Would stimulate more people to just open source it all.
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Re:Infrastructure bill cryptocurrency surveillance provision... by dnautics on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @03:36PM (#28053173)
You assume that the value in this case is created merely by its existence but software in a vacuum is worthless. The value in software is also created by orgs that choose to use the software, by distribution networks. It must be reduced to practice.

As a software dev that can be a hard pill to swallow.

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Re:Infrastructure bill cryptocurrency surveillance provision... by tluyben2 on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @04:47PM (#28053975)
Yes, agreed. But does that change the case?
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Re:Infrastructure bill cryptocurrency surveillance provision... by dnautics on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @05:52PM (#28054688)
Yes? I am asserting that you are overestimating the value of the programmer, which is one axis of the correlation I suggest.
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