Oh man, that open source article is hilarious! Thank you for sharing.

I haven't contributed to open source in a few months and I still can't find a date to take to Starbucks. What am I doing wrong?

It's not like the points he is bringing up are invalid though - and I say that as someone who actually likes using, creating and contributing to FOSS projects. Most of them eventually boil down to funding - it's rare that open source projects get decent funding or that big-co employees are allowed to feed back stuff back upstream. The result is a shit ton of people all doing what they want, but there is no overall vision where the ship should head - and those that do want to break the cycle of misery often enough get badly burned. Just look at systemd, how much hate it got and how it's practically unthinkable now for people to ship handcrafted initd scripts instead of a sane unit file?

How many Heartbleed, left-pad or whatever similar instances of catastrophe does the IT industry need to recognize that relying on self-exploitation and intermittent government grants is not the way forward?

That's true, the points are not invalid. Some of them aren't even coherent.

> Medium paycheck.

I'm sorry, what? Out of the loop here.

Find "What Stats/Data Points Will Be Used to Calculate Medium Earnings?" in the link: https://medium.com/blogging-guide/how-much-money-can-you-mak...

But basically: outrage increases readership increases Medium author payout

I’m referring to the Medium Partner Program, which pays based on level of engagement with readers, particularly subscribers (as this is a Medium post).