Comment by fsflover
6 hours ago
People have too many other problems in their life to spend efforts on every (important!) world problem. This is essentially a Maslow's pyramid. Unless it's also your hobby, you simply have no energy to spend on things which aren't immediately beneficial to you. This is not equivalent to not caring.
You seem to, as I do, care about open platforms and open software.
I think to difference here is, you need to believe people care. Meanwhile I know most don't.
The best I've ever gotten from people is economic self interest. "Free" without care for the ecosystem.
Beyond that? It's all posturing and signaling. I've had hundreds of clients, been involved at the community and government levels, worked to make OSS better for all.
And after 30 years it gets worse not better.
Even now, the biggest push is self interest, because "oh software not controlled by US corps?", from clients and government entities I work with.
Understand, I say this with immense sadness. And we must still strive. But for most of the world, simple is all they understand.
And OSS is a nuanced argument.
> The best I've ever gotten from people is economic self interest.
In the end, it all comes down to money, which is the measure of people's prosperity. It's sufficient to only care about it. I guess democracy itself also improves the prosperity of people in general.