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Anonymous 2021-05-16 (Sun) 18:59:58 No.8531

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2021/the-oss-bubble-and-the-blogging-bubble/
< Babel is used by millions, so why are we running out of money?
> This doesn’t surprise me. The purpose of the web software industry is to extract value out of Open-Source Software (OSS). Everything is built under the misconception that OSS is abundant, replaceable, and free.
> People don’t appreciate just how much web dev is about extracting value from OSS, both on individual and corporate levels.
> [..]
> Web development? Everything is built or run directly on OSS.
> Almost everything we do in web development exists as a thin layer over open-source software.
> Servers, build tools, databases, ORMs, auth, client-side JS, web browser: we are all building on a vast ocean of OSS labour without paying back a fraction of the value we generate. It isn’t just big, direct dependencies like Babel that are suffering. The stuff your stuff is using—the infrastructure code everything needs—is surviving on sheer inertia as well.
> That’s value extraction. Strip-mining if you want to hammer home the unsustainability. Looting if you want to emphasise the moral dimension.
Is open-source close to collapse?

Anonymous 2021-05-16 (Sun) 19:13:42 No.8532

>corporations… but "open" source"!
Yawn.

Anonymous 2021-05-17 (Mon) 13:46:07 No.8552

Yeah, MIT licensed projects are basically working for Apple but for free

Anonymous 2021-05-17 (Mon) 14:09:12 No.8553

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>help, corporations are abiding by the rules of my program's license!
<so pick a more restrictive license like AGPL then
>no, then corporations won't want to use my program!
every time

Anonymous 2021-05-17 (Mon) 14:20:05 No.8555

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I programmed most of my stuff through visual studio and RPG maker

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