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Paying people to work on open source is good actually (jacobian.org)
submitted 8 months ago by testeronious@lemmy.world to c/programming@programming.dev
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[–] h3rm17@sh.itjust.works -5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Why? I use the internet to share media and culture via P2P. Is that failing my ideals? Also I don't remember Stallman being a commie, to be fair.

And opensource CAN exist without people paying the mantainers, people have being giving things away to the community since time is time This trend of companies paying mintainers is relatively new.

Plus, on the other hand, as long as it is full open source, I can't see why anyone would have a problem with the maintainers getting paid, specially through a foundation via donarions and/or crowdfunding.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Why? I use the internet to share media and culture via P2P. Is that failing my ideals?

"If you really think you can live outside of capitalism in a capitalist world, go off the grid." are these your ideals?

Also I don’t remember Stallman being a commie, to be fair.

What does that have to do with anything?

And opensource CAN exist without people paying the mantainers, people have being giving things away to the community since time is time

Giving money in return for code is payment. A donation is payment. A maintainer getting money during their day job and then working on opensource in their free time is payment.

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[–] h3rm17@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)
  1. No, but I mean it IS possible to take steps against and live outside capitalism while inside capitalism is possible. It's a grayscale, not "all or nothing".
  2. Meaning, that open source not being paid is not inherently outside capitalism.
  3. Yeah, sure is. But they are crowd sourced paymemts, instead of corporate payments.
[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 3 points 8 months ago

I think we are agreeing with each other: life is not black and white and puritans want to make it.