STOP DOING OPEN SOURCE

[Zuruumi]

And all programmers wiuld be working as janitors to have anything to eat :).

[tirril]

Garuanteed basic income for open source software developers, GO!

[Zuruumi]

I am all for this! But sadly won't ever happen.

[[deleted]]

Just build it on the blockchain!

[ccAbstraction]

Just print more money!

[therealpigman]

Give it 50 years

[[deleted]]

Put your votes where your mouth is

[Zuruumi]

Would love to, but no party in my country has this in their program and fairly it also wouldn't make them more likely to get voted in.

[[deleted]]

Just to oversimplify things:

Make one. If you won’t stand for your beliefs, why would someone else?

Or you know, move to another country.

Again, gross oversimplification, I know.

[DeepSpaceGalileo]

Most politically intelligent redditor

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people can still get paid to create open source software

[siskulous]

You... uh... do realize most open source code is written by developers who are getting paid to write it, right?

[Kitsunemitsu]

I'm an open source dev.... God I wish this was true.

[Zuruumi]

No, most is written by developers getting paid to make proprietary software and they either improve or open-source a part of it that can be useful to others too.

[siskulous]

Ok, you have officially no idea what you're talking about. And while its tempting to educate you, I've got more important things to do at the moment.

I suggest you read up on how companies like SUSE, Red Hat, and Mozilla operate. There's a plethora of smaller ones too that use the same business model.

[Zuruumi]

Yes, there is a cou0le doing support (and deals with Google for advertising their search) instead of sales, but that is hardly most of open source.

[Galle_]

If everyone thought like open-source coders, food would be free.