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1/ My unpopular take: Free and Open Source Software culture often goes way past the point of absurdity in its idealism. It often winds up doing to software what file sharing did to music: It devalues the work and the creators behind it, and it breeds an entitlement culture.
2/ It'd be one thing if we had basic income or lived in a Star Trek future. But what FOSS winds up being in the current climate is yet another way for the rich to get richer (free labor!) and a hindrance to making an honest living for creators.
3/ I'm not saying it's all bad. It's really nice to have all this stuff for free. And to have transparency on certain key plumbing of the world's code. In the case of DeOldify, it's great free advertising and on the whole I've probably benefited way more than lost.
4/ But the appetite for everything being free- including the labor- is weirdly unquestioned and ubiquitous. And I suspect (but can't prove) that that sort of culture drives inequality more than solves it.
5/ It also drives evil business models. You've heard the saying- "If you're not paying for it, then you're the product." Facebook and Cambridge Analytica come to mind. I'm not the only one saying this of course. Jaron Lanier has been talking about this for years.
Yeah, being an open source maintainer is hell. There's a reason why so many of them develop salty attitudes.
File sharing was just about dissemination but open source is about collective creation so I don't think the analogy is useful. I understand your point, that the pressure to make cheap sw lowers quality unless userbase is huge.
Collective creation is the ideal that is promoted around open source. But I think the actual usage vs contribution ratio is tilted overwhelmingly heavily towards non-contribution in practice. And what really gets emphasized and expected is the "free" part.
What do you think about linux? The whole point of doing FOSS is because its fun and hopefully useful. If someone things they are exploited they should just exit. At the end its also about the quality of core thinkers and the drivers behind that piece of software.
Nobody can force you to merge somebodys pull request. If they like the general direction of your software will keep contributing.
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