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What are your thoughts? Any counter-counter points to the author’s response to most concerns regarding open source?
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Yup, I’m the same way. If I could work in FOSS, I’d be happy to take a pay cut, but FOSS doesn’t pay anywhere near good enough. So it’ll remain a hobby.
As such, I’m pretty reasonable about what needs to be open source, and what’s fine being proprietary. For example:
- OS - must be FOSS
- games - proprietary is fine, but no privileged access (e.g. kernel level anti-cheat)
- web browser - must be FOSS
- web services - proprietary is fine, provided they don’t collect a creepy amount of info about me
Basically, the more risk there is of a security issue, the more I expect it to be FOSS. And I’m willing to help out too. I’ve submitted patches to Lemmy and other FOSS projects I use, and I’ll donate something similar to what I’d pay for a proprietary app for certain projects.
It"s a difficult viewpoint given where money flows. A better method shoupd be more government funded software, with a FOSS requirement since it’s tax dollars.
That being said, I’m very fortunate to be working for a company that releases software under MIT and/or SSPLv1, and we use almost exclusively Open Source for our infrastructure and back office (decisions I made, but had the strong, proactive backing of our CEO/Founders).
“I only eat food that’s free.”
I fully support open source software, but it’s not feasible under the current economic system to expect everyone to exclusively contribute to open source projects.
You are allowed to charge money for open source.
Its the recipe that makes the food you’re eating that would need to be publicly available and free to redistribute.
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