Trevor FlowersI 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.
Carlos Solís@trevorflowers The only part that's missing from the UBI equation is finding how to actually raise the money to make basic income workable, especially with the expected fewer people in the workforce.
Haelwenn /элвэн/ 
@csolisr @trevorflowers Which is quite why I find that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salaire_%C3%A0_vie makes more sense, you'd even keep the economic encouragement for people to study/work which politically is likely more acceptable.
LisPi@lanodan @trevorflowers @csolisr That has a number of flaws, but most particularly an insistence on papers.
A lot of Free Software programmers do *not* have the academic certifications and so on paper do not have the "professional competency" they actually have. In some cases, due to a variety of issues unrelated to monetary cost, they *cannot* acquire said certification either.
It is also an issue for Libre work on politically inconvenient technologies (though it is equally an issue with pseudonymous authorship of some investigative stuff), such that alternative acknowledgements of specialization/competence might also pose a risk by flagging one as a target for feds.
A lot of Free Software programmers do *not* have the academic certifications and so on paper do not have the "professional competency" they actually have. In some cases, due to a variety of issues unrelated to monetary cost, they *cannot* acquire said certification either.
It is also an issue for Libre work on politically inconvenient technologies (though it is equally an issue with pseudonymous authorship of some investigative stuff), such that alternative acknowledgements of specialization/competence might also pose a risk by flagging one as a target for feds.
@lispi314 @csolisr @trevorflowers
On the certification part, it's not supposed to be tied only to the academic part, but also experience, otherwise I would throw it all away. (as I have 0 academic certifications and realistically I'm not if sure I'll ever have any)
As for the political part… could be a problem for say Tor Project / Tails developers but the publicly known ones also participate in other projects. That said I'd rather have it work via unions (like unemployment works in some countries) rather than government agencies (like done in recent decades in France for unemployment, which plainly sucks).
On the certification part, it's not supposed to be tied only to the academic part, but also experience, otherwise I would throw it all away. (as I have 0 academic certifications and realistically I'm not if sure I'll ever have any)
As for the political part… could be a problem for say Tor Project / Tails developers but the publicly known ones also participate in other projects. That said I'd rather have it work via unions (like unemployment works in some countries) rather than government agencies (like done in recent decades in France for unemployment, which plainly sucks).
@lanodan @trevorflowers @csolisr The problem with unions, at least here, is that they *also* often have paperwork red tape requirements. So they wouldn't meaningfully differ from government, and in fact might be worse since they often have harsher requirements on recency of employment, certification/license and whatnot. (Needless to say, there's a lot to fix.)
I think the overwhelming majority of people involved in stuff like I2P are pseudonymous, and for good reason since the project feels a fair bit more serious about traffic obfuscation than Tor.
I think the overwhelming majority of people involved in stuff like I2P are pseudonymous, and for good reason since the project feels a fair bit more serious about traffic obfuscation than Tor.