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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Nothing is truly free right? It’s probably helpful to start identifying where the costs and value are actually being realized - who benefits etc.
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Some people believe that even when everyone is charging money for hot dogs, that there can still be “predatory pricing” by intentionally lowering pricing opportunistically to harm competition but imho this is really hard to sustain for the predator which means The System Works.
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The root, underlying problem is that it takes a fucking miracle to get paid for OSS work (even if corporations are using it commercially). One project having community-sponsored maintainers shouldn't be a rarity that nobody wasn't to ruin.
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