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Open Source Developers Are Exhausted, Unpaid, and Ready to Walk Away (itsfoss.com)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/49194514

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[–] 25 points 10 months ago (24 children)

Big question is: how many of us are funding foss projects?

It isn't difficult, and with how popular some are, it wouldn't be long before the projects could hire one or more full time devs at good rates.

I support a few big projects I use every month through liberapay.

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  • [–] 39 points 10 months ago (15 children)

    I think the bigger question is how many corporations are supporting foss projects? I'm sure a lot of us contribute a bit here and there if we can and I'm sure it makes a difference - but if some of these corporations, making billions of dollars profit, contribute just a tiny fraction of their wealth it could make a huge difference.

    It's the same argument as recycling, turning off lights, walking instead of driving etc. etc. - yes there are 8 billion of us and if we all do it, it will make a difference, but the difference we make is still not significant compared to corporate greed.

    We are being gaslit to accept yet another scenario where we socialize the cost and privatize the profit.

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  • [+] -13 points 10 months ago (12 children)

    A corporation has no obligations towards foss projects, no different to any individual being made to fund them.

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  • [–] 23 points 10 months ago (7 children)

    This isn't true, a lot of corporations use and benefit from the foss and they should be supporting those projects.

    They should also be supporting projects that could replace the applications that they spend millions on each year. When your CIO says that they are using 'whatever corpo system' because a viable open source project doesn't exist, they should start funding the non-viable projects so they can become viable.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    The problem is, I feel like more recent MBA lessons tell people that the "rising tide that lifts all ships" is a business death sentence, for reasons unexplained. Many of them now would rather sink the whole ocean if they believe that their business will sink a little bit less.

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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    they should be supporting those projects

    As long as the end user is abiding by the licensing terms it shouldn't be an expectation that any additional support is coming from anywhere. This is the nature of foss. The contributors should know this.

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago* (2 children)

    Licensing terms only govern the legal aspects, not social and moral aspects.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Of course, but as we know there is no universal agreements for either. The expectations are ill placed.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    We don't need the madman who thinks suffering is good to change their mind for sensible people to act, as medicine doesn't need the madman who thinks always throwing up is healthy. We place expectations on others everyday: like when we walk past a stranger. Perfect agreement is not needed to have expectations, or demand better from those who benefit from others.

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