I dont really see how. I'm telling people that doing volunteer work for facebook is immoral. I don't really see how pointing this out is ironic or whatever double-reverse gotcha you're trying to snare me in here.
Dont scatter your work to the wind. Retain control of it. Give it freely to those you trust. Keep it from those you don't. Sell it to the rich, give it to the poor.
These are easy moral choices and programmers are fucking them up constantly.
got reminded of masto because of some open source drama.
Open source is a bad idea. Its doing volunteer work for free, for people who largely dont appreciate it.
People contributing to your software is a benefit. People paying you for your software is a benefit. People using your software is NOT a benefit, and people convincing MORE people to come use your software for free is also NOT a benefit.
read that Stand Out Of Our Light book and its good and also a fast read so maybe you'd like to read it too? Download the pdf here
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/stand-out-of-our-light/3F8D7BA2C0FE3A7126A4D9B73A89415D
yeah its an uphill battle thats for sure but I think what has to come first is for programmers to realize that open source is taking advantage of them, and that sharing code is not an unambiguous social good.
Once that change comes, I think something like software trusts might be possible.
