Daily Linux & Open Source News - S01E239 - Post Open wants each FOSS contributor to get paid
Added 2024-12-10 09:27:40 +0000 UTCHey everyone!
In today's episode, we have:
00:05 NTSYNC patches might bring better FPS for games
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NTSYNC-Linux-v6-Patches
02:55 Post Open model wants FOSS devs to get paid
Have a great day!
Comments
I think the Post Open model is certainly attempting to address an all but critical irregularity. However as raised during the segment, I think that it overtly contradicts the spirit and fundamental power underpinning Free Software philosophy. I find that the root of the problem and domain for the solution is far higher upstream. Starting with mono/oligopolistic market structures instituted, harboured and sustained by illegitimate global and national financial architectures, personified and actualized by the hyper-growth venture capital ideology. The most pertinent effects of the former being the effective prohibition of a range of smaller competitors, with more breadth to follow values [vs profit] based business philosophies and models. Fair and equitable integration by values based software, services, & infrastructure companies into open source communities and projects, can in my opinion drive not only global scale, high revenue, and exceptional profitability. But also much faster and far more profound innovation.
Arnold Opio Oree
2024-12-12 21:40:25 +0000 UTCPost Open sounds like a worthy, but impractical, goal. Although another angle is that injecting a cost into FOSS would also be good for the corporations that consume it. Right now it's way too much of a free-for-all with developers and their managers mainly caring about accelerating the development process, rather than the long term consequences of relying on too much external code that can have defects outside of your control. Slowing the absorption of FOSS could be a good thing, resulting in systems with fewer moving parts and more control. Hope that makes sense.
Steve C
2024-12-11 17:19:55 +0000 UTCYeah, that's why they need a "foundation" to handle all of this, but it's not going to be an easy thing to handle, or even to get people to accepot
The Linux Experiment
2024-12-11 09:42:31 +0000 UTCI like the post-open is trying to find ways to increase the ability to get devs paid, however gate-keeping by revenue will be incredibly difficult to put in place and maintain.
Clint Eschberger
2024-12-10 15:49:41 +0000 UTCI'd like to hear more in the future about how post-open evolves, especially around solving some of its problems. If it counts contribution by lines of code, you'd get a lot of AI spam commits trying to add bloat and not adding value. A concise and efficient program may be valued less than an overstructured one. Still, it's a good problem to tackle.
NotMyName
2024-12-10 12:16:16 +0000 UTC
