In a way, I think money is not even a big issue.
I recently came across this article:
<https://newrepublic.com/article/121832/pleasure-do-it-yourself-slow-computing>
Applying the "Slow Food" analogy, our point would not be pouring
money so that it becomes "Less Slow" 😄
I would say, we need to have more people enjoy it. So in practical
terms, we need to develop a huge communal kitchen, instead of an
industrial food factory.
The workers at food factory, or paid computer programmers at
Microsoft, for example, would not go there were it not for the money.
However, the people at communal kitchens at camping sites go there
for the enjoyment of it!
Free Software development should a very enjoyable activity and we
should aim to develop a practical regime of constantly welcoming new
participants, educating them and empowering them to enjoy and
contribute meaningfully to the Fee Software ecosystem 😄
-Yasu
On Jul 24, 2020, at 06:36, Msavoritias
<marinus.savoritias@disroot.org> wrote:
Mr Fidelman,
Whether this person is or isn't correct doesn't matter. We should
treat
everybody respectfully otherwise we are alienating potential Free
Software users from joining our community. Please try to be more
polite
in the future.
MSavoritias
On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 15:22, Miles Fidelman
<mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> wrote:
On 7/23/20 12:48 PM, Sagar Acharya via libreplanet-discuss wrote:
I read "Free as in Freedom" by Richard Stallman and am a strong
supporter of GNU project. I strongly want it to succeed. However,
when you keep money away from the free software movement, such a
movement cannot survive against people who actively charge money
for
binaries without source code. All power arises from concealment.
When you understand a system very well, the power goes away and
it
looks ordinary. When GNU or libre movement asks contributors or
volunteers (both fancy words for "work for me for free"), you
present making libre software as a secondary thing rather than a
central thing. When projects licensed GPLv3 rely almost
completely
on "donations" from other, you rely on the donor's generosity for
getting food at your table. I really want people to remove
reliance
on external things and make GNU central and very active.
So what's your point? FOSS is doing quite well. Apache powers the
web. Postfix powers email. Linux, Python, ... And plenty of the
bug
guys pay good money to folks who crank out FOSS software. What's
the
point of pontificating & spouting counter-factual bullshit? Do you
just like making a fool of yourself? Or am I missing something?
Miles
Fidelman
--
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In
practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra Theory is when you know
everything
but nothing works. Practice is when everything works but no one
knows
why. In our lab, theory and practice are combined: nothing works
and no
one knows why. ... unknown
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