Been thinking a lot about what comes after “free software” & “open source.” Both terms were coined when the tech industry (& the world) was a very different place. I think we’ve outgrown them.
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I understood
@sarahmei's tweet as implying that we should include "free vs paid labor" as part of the defining project of the new open source concept.
It's a list of relevant things not accounted for in either FS/OSS movements. I can see why they didn't occur initially. As for €, it seems important to be able to classify some projects as "no paid labor" but I don't think anyone called for banning paid labor as you suggest.
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(reposted because I misquoted the original tweet)
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If anything, I think the misconception that OSS is purely written for free in people's spare time/weekends is incredibly damaging. This view is perpetuated because paid labor in OSS is often not publicly acknowledged enough. So this dimension should definitely be more prominent.
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I agree making it more prominent is a good thing. But characterizing some projects as "free as in labor costs" is definitely not something I'd like to see happening.
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It's be nice to have, like, low level crypto / security infrastructure be built without any companies or govts having leverage. That's what I was thinking there.
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(also, I'd say that "no paid labor" does NOT mean zero labor costs--there's no such thing-- it just means the workers foot the bill themselves)
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