Jason Antic

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.

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.

The whole thing about open source software being subject to many eyes and stakeholders, and therefore bugs get fixed faster just doesn't seem to play out in practice. Even the popular stuff. What winds up actually happening seems to be the tragedy of the commons.

That's my experience at least, having been developing for almost 20 years. Your mileage may vary.