Mastodawn

So here’s my deal:

Open Source Software - generally - is a bad idea now. At one point it was a good idea, but not any more.

It’s become a process by which all products of my profession that aren’t user data or business processes have their value set to zero.

It’s become a process where we give away our labor for free in the hopes that someone will hire us.

It’s become a process by which we donate our labor to billionaires and governments.

Don’t write open source software. Keep your labor.

@rotor I get paid to work on an open source project so it's win/win if you can manage that.

it’s not though. The work you give away means less work for programmers. It means no one else will get paid to write that.

@savemeejeebus it’s a win for you, and it’s a win for whatever startup uses your labor, and that’s it.