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Re:Bad Microsoft by revelation on Sunday December 14, 2014 @10:39AM (#8748517)
Right, it's perfectly zen to be exploited and have the spoils of your work concentrated in the hands of a few.

I'd rather have 100 doctors earn 500k/year than one insurance admin earning $50M.

In the meantime, programmers aren't even paid overtime. Because...?

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Re:Bad Microsoft by zxcvcxz on Sunday December 14, 2014 @10:45AM (#8748529)
Contributing to open source != being exploited.
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Re:Bad Microsoft by revelation on Sunday December 14, 2014 @10:51AM (#8748546)
If you pick the one aspect that my comment isn't addressing, you can manage to dismantle it. Surprise!

There'd be more open source if programmers were paid more, not bullied into working free overtime on a salary and pressured by companies into vastly expansive, potentially illegal (but what individual has the resources to find out?) contracts that curtail their copyright to even products they develop in their free time. These cases exist.

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