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Re:When Open Becomes Opaque: The Changing Face of Open-Sourc... by goodpoint on Thursday July 20, 2023 @06:16AM (#36798661)
> morally wrong about wanting to exist in an endgame society that decides its best to give zero credit to creators of ideas

Where can I see the names of the people who designed my phone? Is it printed on the box? Or those who wrote a service I use like GitHub?

Inventors have been dispossessed of their authorship for the last hundred years.

> thinkers are selected out of the gene pool

Right now having contributed to openbsd makes a guy the sexiest dude in every party, right?

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Re:When Open Becomes Opaque: The Changing Face of Open-Sourc... by gmd63 on Thursday July 20, 2023 @11:13AM (#36801708)
OpenBSD is exactly my point. It's deeply knowledgeable people giving their hard work away for free. There is nothing sexy about that.

Honorable, idealistic, yeah. I deeply value the people that work on OpenBSD. I wish they had fewer struggles in life. They should start by valuing their time and effort more, like lawyers, who charge 10s of thousands of dollars to read PDFs.

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