Better funding for documentation
Better funding for documentation
Posted Nov 7, 2024 6:39 UTC (Thu) by oldtomas (guest, #72579)In reply to: Better funding for documentation by khim
Parent article: Funding restored for man-page maintenance
Actually, sometimes it is easy to tell... in hindsight. With all those infrastructure-y things you notice when bridges collapse, floods wash away lives, swathes of formerly arable land stop yielding crops.
More insidious things like education, public health are in the same category: you can save a shitload of money today, later generations will have to pay back two orders of magnitude times that, plus some lives to go with it.
Free software (called "open source" by those who like to raid the commons) has become infrastructure of sorts, for better or worse.
Posted Nov 7, 2024 21:06 UTC (Thu)
by khim (subscriber, #9252)
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I find that note very funny in a light of the simple fact that the majority of what people call “free software” was made by people from “open source” camp (that is: the ones who don't subscribe to the idea that world without proprietary software is possible or even desirable). It was mostly inevitable. Maybe it should be treated like the other kinds of infrastructure as be paid by taxpayers money? No one know what's the best way to fund the infrastructure, but that's how the majority of infrastructure is supported in other areas, why should software be any different? I guess we would need to first ensure each country would have it's own local open source core software first… the first step in that direction was done, but I wonder how long would it take to finally reach that state where we would no longer have one single Linux, one single Rust, one single C++… years?… decades?… Your guess is as good as mine.
> called "open source" by those who like to raid the commons
Better funding for documentation