Comment by brightball
16 hours ago
This is a good example of Diffusion of Responsibility.
Everybody thinks somebody else should help, so nobody does.
16 hours ago
This is a good example of Diffusion of Responsibility.
Everybody thinks somebody else should help, so nobody does.
Google made 10^7 as much money as I did last year. Yea, I don't think it's as simple as you make it seem.
I don't think they even see it as their responsibility, more, "If he wanted money, he should have charged for his software".
If he actually did charge money someone else would've written an implementation of sudo to solve their own needs and avoid the overhead of transacting with a random developer.
And then "If he wanted money, he should have charged for his software" would apply to that someone.
"Your 3 months sudo trial is expiring. Would you like to sign up for sudo-pro (best for hobbiest and small teams), sudo-business (up to 100 users) or sudo-enterprise (reach out for a quote)"
I mean, he should just put a message when you run sudo the first time asking for funding if he wants it that bad, that should speed things up.
It would be removed by distros. XScreensaver had a notice when user ran old version and Debian removed it.
Seriously, just put a VAT on digital services to fund a system that pays out grants to individuals to help maintain open source software. It should be obvious by now that corporations will rat fuck the commons for monetary gain and there is a serious need for democratic initiatives to put technology back into the hands of the people.
I would like to live in this utopia where free software is funded by the state. This seems impossible to get implemented in our world though.
The EU does fund a lot of open source software.
But how would that work? There isn’t unlimited money so who decides what software to support with state money and which developers? I don’t have trust in a bureaucracy to decide which developers should get paid to work on sudo. Just look at a the sudo-rs debacle and that’s without money involved.