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Subject: San Francisco billboards call out tech firms for not paying for OSS
Ya, if you profit or reduce overhead, give back. Dont be a *****.
( from lxer's feed )
The issue of paying FOSS developers is neatly illustrated by Randall Munroe's classic xkcd 2347 comic titled Dependency that highlights how key software can often be maintained by a single individual – who is worthy of support, given the extent of reliance on their work.
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/10/25/open_source_funding_ads/
Friend of mine just climbed on board the 'climate change' train. Too bad, i liked her, wont be talking to her much anymore. Tried to explain its a scam, has been proven to be by *real*, and independent, scientists. Only met with typical rants "we are all gonna die". Just cant understand its a money making/control scam. ( and ya, she is voting D... )
Aside from it not being a 'major sudden event' and instead a 'slow normal natural change' Earth does this all the time, its not us, we cant influence anything at a global scale. Sure, i guess locally, a town or something could be effected for a short term due to all the crop/tree destruction, water diversion, or a toxic leak or something, but logic isn't what drives the gravy train.
Even if we set off every nuclear bomb we have, even then, it would not even wipe out all life. and besides, earth would recover in time. We are an insignificant blip in the bigger picture.
Now, i do understand 'space is hard' and satellite failures do
happen, and even de-orbit in severe cases, but an explosion?
They will blame it on Putin. Maybe they would be right, for a change.
2024-10-24 10:23 from Nurb432
hit send too fast.
Im sure that if its caused due to a 'medical condition' it may
not be as easy reverted, if at all. But with spaceflight, its
environmental, so it makes sense ( to me anyway ) it can be
reversed.
I actually asked a doctor. His TL;DR answer is that recovery is possible but not up to 100%.
Ill buy that.
I actually asked a doctor. His TL;DR answer is that recovery is possible but not up to 100%.
Subject: Re: San Francisco billboards call out tech firms for not paying for OSS
The issue of paying FOSS developers is neatly illustrated by
Randall Munroe's classic xkcd 2347 comic titled Dependency that
XKCD jumped the shark a long time ago and Randall is kind of a dick, but let's talk about funding open source developers instead.
The idea of "you have to pay me for this free shit if you make money" is 540 degrees wrong. The big players *are* contributing by hiring developers to maintain and improve the open source ecosystem. Look at any of the major projects and you're going to find a lot of the developers employed by Google or Canonical or IBM Hat or even Micro$oft or Amazon.
If you want to make money writing open source software, hire on with a company that sponsors it. Otherwise, be like me and do it for the sheer love of the craft. Or ... do both!
Subject: Re: San Francisco billboards call out tech firms for not paying for OSS
Clearly i dont agree. :) Now, should it be *mandated*, of course not. ( then it would not be open... ) But if you are making money off it ( direct or indirect ), its just the right thing to do. Riding on the backs of others and not giving back, i have an issue with. Do you have to give them a % or millions or something silly like that? No of course not. But pitch in.
Mon Oct 28 2024 22:37:10 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar Subject: Re: San Francisco billboards call out tech firms for not paying for OSS
The idea of "you have to pay me for this free shit if you make money" is 540 degrees wrong.