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On the surface, the open source software community has never been better. Companies and governments are adopting open source software at rates that would’ve been unfathomable 20 years ago, and a whole new generation of programmers are cutting their teeth on developing software in plain sight and making it freely available for anyone to use. Go a little deeper, however, and the cracks start to show.
The ascendancy of open source has placed a mounting burden on the maintainers of popular software, who now handle more bug reports, feature requests, code reviews, and code commits than ever before. At the same time, open source developers must also deal with an influx of corporate users who are unfamiliar with community norms when it comes to producing and consuming open source software. This leads to developer burnout and a growing feeling of resentment toward the companies that rely on free labor to produce software that is folded into products and sold back to consumers for huge profits.
The Free Rider Problem rears its head again?
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday February 16 2019, @10:51PM
Hardware isn't free, internet access and the infrastructure thereof isn't free, CS training isn't free...but where is the money actually coming from and going? I'd be immediately suspicious of corporate beancounters and other various rent-seekers, and the more innocuous-sounding the name, the more suspicious. Like the Linux Foundation for example.
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