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Gold, Silver, Bronze

Gold, Silver, Bronze

Posted Oct 10, 2024 8:27 UTC (Thu) by taladar (subscriber, #68407)
In reply to: Gold, Silver, Bronze by milesrout
Parent article: The Open Source Pledge: peer pressure to pay maintainers

The problem is that "software that benefits you" is probably going to end up only benefiting direct dependencies while you would really want the entire dependency tree funded at the very least. Even that might be insufficient if you consider how much open source software benefits you indirectly, e.g. because some product you use that isn't software at all can be cheaper because that company has to pay less to get their website developed or because some data you need is available only because it can be hosted as an open API based on open source software.


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Gold, Silver, Bronze

Posted Oct 10, 2024 11:33 UTC (Thu) by milesrout (subscriber, #126894) [Link]

I don't care at all what is funded. The software I use was created by people that do it for fun. Yes people being paid to write free software have contributed a lot since then, but thry arent even covered by this pledge!


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