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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.
Of course it's not surprising that a business does, well, business things. Even with open source software. But what is depressing is that contributors are getting exploited as a result.
Open source solves many more problems than it creates. I remember the world when it was windows-only with shareware that worked for 14 days and then costed 29.90. That was not the way. Software needs a lot of software to be developed and both need to be open and free to be >
> fixed and enriched quickly. And the only way to give the right value to people's work is to vote for leftist parties.
This is a tricky subject. Being self taught in mostly everything I know in software, if it weren't FOSS I would have never been able to transition. But that might be an edge case. I'm kinda happy that Fb & Google are dev PyTorch & TF; but I think the pb is on smaller projects
As I've been thinking more and more about this, I think a business model that might be interesting to try to keep both the openness and accessibility while making it viable might be to require licensing above a certain level? Number of people / commercial applications, any else?
The counter argument is, that there are quite some big players like IBM and Google who are committing back into the open source. So kind of "fair usage". But yes, there are people who missuse the concept of fair use. Cloud vendors turning FOSS into SaaS are a big topic here.
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