With companies taking advantage of Free and Open Source Software far more often than they contribute back, and harming users in the process, is it even worth working on anymore?
Free Software is, and has been for the last 40 years, about the “four freedoms.”
No, Free Software was about more than just the four freedoms since the beginning: building communities, encouraging reciprocity and cooperation, empowering developers and end users, sharing knowledge, acknowledging authorship.
People pointed out decades ago that the 4 freedoms don’t clearly spell out the importance of the other aspects.
Having your volunteering work appropriated and turned into unpaid labor is a legitimate concern.
No, Free Software was about more than just the four freedoms since the beginning: building communities, encouraging reciprocity and cooperation, empowering developers and end users, sharing knowledge, acknowledging authorship.
People pointed out decades ago that the 4 freedoms don’t clearly spell out the importance of the other aspects.
Having your volunteering work appropriated and turned into unpaid labor is a legitimate concern.