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1 Billion Dollars for Open Source Maintainers | Tobie Langel @ OpenUK 15 feb 2024 (youtu.be)

submitted 4 months ago by onlinepersona to c/opensource

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After reading this post about Rust having a "supply chain problem" and @[email protected]'s response linking to the blog post "I'm not a supplier", I couldn't help but think of this talk (opensource conference hosting exclusively on youtube, make that make sense).

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[–] qweertz 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

hosted exclusively on youtube, make that make sense

It makes perfect sense, since it's open source and not free/libre we are talking about. Open source doesn't care about the philosophy or political movement behind free software. It's an opportunistic appeal to corporations, advertising "open source" as just a more efficient development model

[–] onlinepersona 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Makes sense indeed.

I find it hilarious (and sad) when opensource conferences pay for closed source conferencing software. Then make it available only on youtube or on vimeo behind a paywall. Or only make the demos available on youtube but require you to be physically present otherwise you miss it.

Anti Commercial-AI license

[–] qweertz 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Those are such "mask off" moments imo

The best being "want documentation? join our discord", which makes me absolutely livid.

Using discord as a wannabe forum, wiki and matrix chat replacement rly goes to show that for the core dev(s), "open source" just means a development model