You work for free to make software that you give away for free and you convince other people to update that software for free.People are being convinced into working for free.
>>108824676Everyone working together to make the world better benefits everyone.I make stuff for free, others do stuff for free, i end up with more free stuff than i could ever build in my lifetime and so does everyone else.Besides a lot of stuff i write if for my own use and it cost me literally nothing to make it foss.
You post for free to make posts that you give away for free and you convince other people to read that post for free.People are being convinced into posting for free
it's evil to make software for money because software is information, it's intangible and not scarce, so it can't be owned>but I want to make money selling software!then sell it exclusively on physical media, which is tangible and scarce and can be owned
>>108824716A physical media containing something that can be shared for free is less valuable than an empty physical media.
>>108824676Bait thread. The point of working is to better the lives of you and the people affected.
>>108824731nevertheless, some people dutifully buy the latest Debian release on DVD every year
>>108824693are you retarded? LLMslop is taking all your jobs thanks to open source shabbos goys
>>108824693>Everyone working together to make the world better benefits everyone. Working for free and getting nothing in return. The open source software hasn't yet produced any food or anything. Or paid rent.
>cooperating for common good instead of shekels is evilamerican post
>>108824778That's nothing compared to the costs of hiring people to write and maintain something like debian.
>>108824676the cost of distributing code or software is effectively 0, so its not like it cost labor to just give away your small projectsand big software projects are being developed by paid positions, often from competitors, as both benefit from the reduced workload.
>>108824844jeet spoted>>108824931>The open source software hasn't yet produced any food or anythingNearly all modern farms rely on equipment that uses open source software.Also>only things that make money are valuableretarded or Jewish?
>>108824995youre the reason jews have an ecological niche you useless subhuman
>>108824995>only things that make money are valuable Things that don't make money can be valuable.But people who were convinced into making free open source software were cheated into making valuable stuff for free.
>>108824987let me play the world's smallest violin for everyone who tries to make even a little bit of money by selling software
>>108824693All the while you have to make money to keep a roof over your head. The incentives are so backwards it's crazy.
>>108824931>open source software hasn't yet produced any food or anythingare you legitimately retarded?
>>108825167You are expected to create software for free, to advertise your skills for job interviews. Other open source fags have a lot of money or work at starbucks and come home to work on open source software for free as a hobby. All that open source software is scraped off the internet by chatgpt and claude and used for free.
>>108824931Working for free? 95% of linux kernel contributions are from paid programmers. Most people working on openjdk are paid (mostly Oracle and IBM). same for chromium, firefox, blender, gcc, postgresql, ... The people behind mono (foss c#) made $millions then sold the company to Microsoft for $500 millions.
>>108824676booba
>>108825062Tons of open source software would loose 99% of its value if it wasn't.
>>108824676The license has nothing to do with charging for distribution. Also, please don't use the term free when referring to monetary cost. Gratis is an acceptable term. Free in terms of software refers to freedom and the free software movement.
>>108824676>Isn't open source kind of evil?yes it was promoted so states could compromise it via easy checkins
>>108824693>Everyone working together to make the world better benefits everyone.>I make stuff for free, others do stuff for free, i end up with more free stuff than i could ever build in my lifetime and so does everyone else.
>>108824676I dual license some of my OSS as AGPL and commercial. Nobody's paid yet but if I catch someone using it in a closed source product I'll sue for gorillions.
>>108824676Many open-source devs are paid corporate programmers.
>>108825072>everyone who tries to make even a little bit of money by selling softwareSome of the most profitable businesses do this.
