I wish more people who are worried about FOSS supply side attacks would realize that universal basic income and free healthcare would result in an almost infinite stream of excellent software from people who care more about quality than profit.

@trevorflowers I'd like to see your data and the model you use to make that claim. The studies I've seen on UBI indicate benefits to the recipients and society in general, but the number of FOSS developers in the general population is vanishingly small.

Universally paying FOSS developers, not forcing them into unpaid labor, seems like a better way of increasing the supply.

@AlgoCompSynth Sir, this is a Wendy's.

@trevorflowers In God We Trust - all others, bring data. 😉

I'm a fan of UBI and public health care - I'm retired and I want everyone to have that. I do FOSS development on a small scale on personal projects. But open source development is industrialized now.

Look at commits to Linux, PostgreSQL, etc., and you'll see a lot of corporate paid programmers. IMHO UBI will get more projects like my consonaR but not Linux, PostgreSQL or even liblzma.