I think there’s a step in between: forcing proprietary solutions (hardware, software, designs, …) to be opensourced once they aren’t maintained or supported anymore.
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AMDmi3@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Criminalizing proprietary software.
onlinepersona@programming.dev 10 months ago
RonSijm@programming.dev 10 months ago
What alternative would you propose? FOSS is barely getting any donations / sponsors - So how are developers supposed to make a living?
spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
UBI would be a step towards something better.
planish@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
We could end the era of the developer as a specialized caste. Our tools should be powerful enough that they allow people with problems to collaborate on software to solve those problems, without having to let that become their full time job.