When a project has full-time maintainers that are community-sponsored is it unethical to compete if it means they could be out of a job? How do you quantify a projects value if it could have a negative effect on people’s lives? Utilitarianism? This isn’t targeted or a subtweet.
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Why would people switch hot dog vendors if the quality was equivalent? I thought your question was about innovation in open source, not stagnation. Let the best dog win, regardless of the vendor's personal financial situation!
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Because of a perceived improvement based on creator and marketing that may not actually be worth the human cost associated with it existing.
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Because open source is free
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Yeah but you can make something new and give it to the existing vendor. You make something new. The exisiting person gets to profit from it.
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