Comment by zaphirplane
11 hours ago
We don’t need to speculate do we, there are tons of real non company run OSS projects
Now I personally wish lawyers and plumbers also got into the free work thing but here we are
11 hours ago
We don’t need to speculate do we, there are tons of real non company run OSS projects
Now I personally wish lawyers and plumbers also got into the free work thing but here we are
Lawyers have a term for it, pro bono, and they do it for good causes. Turns out they're as human as software engineers.
> Turns out they're as human as software engineers.
Lawyers start out as humans but something about going into law school and then private practice, and feeding them after midnight turns them into... something else entirely.
Plumbers are realistic and don’t live on ideals. They set their rates and set their hours. Lawyers; well if if only people behaved we could have nice things in life, but here we are with people trying to screw each other and misbehave…
Digital assets or work are a bit different in that making a second copy is trivial. It’d be different if every computer in the world were bespoke and needed its own bespoke software. So that makes OSS a viable option for those who can but we also can’t expect everyone to default OSS. We can default to asking that the service and prices be reasonable though.